Taylor v. Gillette
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application for a mandamus; brought to the Superior Court and heard before Beardsley, J. Facts found and peremptory mandamus issued. Appeal by defendant. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Park, C.. J.
The plaintiffs in this case, during the pendency in the Superior Court of an appeal taken by them from the probate of the will of one Catherine M. Osborn, filed a motion for a mandamus to compel the defendant, the judge of probate who granted the appeal and prepared the appeal papers, to make a correction of the appeal by describing the appellants, Emily L. Taylor and Selina M. Plumb, as the heirs at law of the testatrix and not merely her sisters. The court below has found that at the time the appeal was taken the appellants “stated to the judge that they took it as heirs at law…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Norton's Appeal from ProbateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1879
- Myers v. DunnSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1881
3Cited by13 opinions
- Bassett v. AtwaterSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1895
- Williams v. CleavelandSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1904
- Orcutt's Appeal From ProbateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1892
- Reetz v. MansfieldSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1935
- Corbett v. MatzSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1900
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