Kingsbury v. Scovill
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from a decree of the court of probate for the district of Waterbury. On the 27th day of March, 1854, William H. Scovill died intestate, leaving a widow, Rebecca H. Scovill, who had been his second wife. He left two children, Alathea R. Kingsbury and Mary Ann Curtis, the issue of his first marriage, and one child, William Henry Scovill, the issue of his second marriage.
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Appeal from a decree of the court of probate for the district of Waterbury. On the 27th day of March, 1854, William H. Scovill died intestate, leaving a widow, Rebecca H. Scovill, who had been his second wife. He left two children, Alathea R. Kingsbury and Mary Ann Curtis, the issue of his first marriage, and one child, William Henry Scovill, the issue of his second marriage. On the 21st day of April, 1854, administration was duly granted on his estate, with the usual limitation to creditors, limitation of settlement and appointment of appraisers. On the 21st day of May, 1854, a first…
1Opinion of the CourtStorks, C. J.
The widow of Mr. Scovill, who died intestate, having died after administration granted on his estate and before distribution, the question is, whether her personal representatives are entitled to the distributive part of his personal estate to which she would have been entitled if she had been living at the time of the distribution, or whether it belongs to his children. We are clearly of the opinion that her right to that part of his estate was a present vested interest on his death, which was not defeated by her subsequent death, and that it therefore belongs to her representatives. An…
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