Todd v. Oviatt
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover possession of a dwelling house and lot; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County. The defendant filed the following answer:— The premises described in said complaint are part of the estate of Elam Hull, deceased. Said Hull died in 1863, leaving a will, which was duly probated in the probate district of New Haven, and his estate was administered and settled under its provisions.
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Action to recover possession of a dwelling house and lot; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County. The defendant filed the following answer:— The premises described in said complaint are part of the estate of Elam Hull, deceased. Said Hull died in 1863, leaving a will, which was duly probated in the probate district of New Haven, and his estate was administered and settled under its provisions. Said will, among other matters, contained the following devise “ I devise to my daughter, Louisa Oviatt, wife of Henry N. Oviatt, and to her heirs forever, the dwelling house where I now…
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
The complaint in this action demands the possession of a certain house and lot in the city of New Haven. The answer of the defendant, which was demurred to by the plaintiffs, sets forth the facts that control the case.
Elam Hull of New Haven died in 1863, leaving a valid will, which gave to his widow, Nancy Hull, the real estate described in the complaint, during her natural life, with remainder to his daughter, Louisa Oviatt, then wife of the defendant Henry N. Oviatt, and to her heirs forever. Mrs. Oviatt, the devisee of the remainder, died in 1864 before her mother, having had two children…
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