Clarke's Appeal from Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the district of Bridgeport, ascertaining the heir and distributee of the intestate estate of Julia Clarke, late of Columbia, South Carolina, deceased; taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and reserved by that court, Ulmer, J., upon a finding of facts, for the consideration and advice of this court.
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Appeal from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the district of Bridgeport, ascertaining the heir and distributee of the intestate estate of Julia Clarke, late of Columbia, South Carolina, deceased; taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and reserved by that court, Ulmer, J., upon a finding of facts, for the consideration and advice of this court. The finding stated the following facts: Henry P. Clarke, the appellant, while domiciled in the State of South Carolina, intermarried with Julia Hurd, in the State of New York, in the year 1886, and the married couple immediately…
1Opinion of the Court
Balbwin,' J.
Julia Clarke of South Carolina died there in infancy, and at the time of her decease was the owner of real estate in Connecticut. Her interest in it was derived from the will of her mother, Julia H. Clarke, who was also *208a citizen of South Carolina. This will was admitted to probate in the proper court of that State, and a suit for its construction afterwards brought there, before a court of equity having jurisdiction of the parties and the subject-matter, which resulted in a decree to the effect that it worked an equitable conversion of all the real estate of the testatrix,…
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