In re the Judicial Settlement of Final Account of Proceedings of Perry

Slater, S.

The decedent was the only child of the first marriage

of her father. Upon the death of her mother, she was adopted by her mother’s brother, Frederick Marquand, by a special act of the State of Connecticut. (General Laws of Connecticut, 1881, chap. 109.) After the death of his first wife, the father of Mrs. Monroe again married, and Mrs. Fanny Tompkins Mason was his daughter by the second marriage. Mrs. Mason died prior to the death of Mrs. Monroe, leaving her surviving four children, including Parkman T. Mason.

By subdivision “ G ” of paragraph “ forty-seventh ” of Mrs. Monroe’s will,…