Clarke v. Clarke
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF ERRORS OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT. This writ of error was procured for the purpose of obtaining the reversal of a judgment of the Supreme Court of Errors of the State of Connecticut, which, as respected real estate situated in the State of Connecticut, refused to follow and apply a judgment of the Supreme Court of South Carolina interpreting and construing the will of Julia H. Clarke.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF ERRORS OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT. This writ of error was procured for the purpose of obtaining the reversal of a judgment of the Supreme Court of Errors of the State of Connecticut, which, as respected real estate situated in the State of Connecticut, refused to follow and apply a judgment of the Supreme Court of South Carolina interpreting and construing the will of Julia H. Clarke. The facts from which the legal questions presented arise are as follows: Henry P. Clarke and Julia Hurd intermarried in New York in 1886, and immediately thereafter went to South…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
The Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut held that the will of Julia H. Clarke, wife of the plaintiff in error, did not at the time of her death work an equitable conversion into per sonalty of the real estate situated in the State of Connecticut, and, consequently, that though personal property might be governed by the law of the domicil, real estate within Connecticut was controlled by the law of Connecticut, and hence that Nancy B. Clarke, as surviving sister of Julia Clarke, inherited, under the laws of Connecticut, to the exclusion of the father, the interest of the deceased sister…
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