Dickerson's Appeal from Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from the order of a probate court distributing the estate of Sarah Williams, deceased; taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and heard before Sanford, ■J. The probate decree reversed and an appeal from that judgment by the original appellee. The case is fully stated in the opinion. 1. The appeal in the Superior Court should have been dismissed on motion.
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Appeal from the order of a probate court distributing the estate of Sarah Williams, deceased; taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and heard before Sanford, ■J. The probate decree reversed and an appeal from that judgment by the original appellee. The case is fully stated in the opinion. 1. The appeal in the Superior Court should have been dismissed on motion. There is nothing on the record showing that the appellants or either of them had any pecuniary interest in the matter of the appeal. Swan v. Wheeler, 4 Day, 137; Saunders v. Denison, 20 Conn., 521; Deming's Appeal from…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
Sarah Williams made a will in 1856; she then owned real estate in the towns of Westport and *228Easton; she subsequently acquired real estate in the towns of Westport and Norwalk. She died in 1885, owning all of this real estate. By her will she devised in fee to Gershom B. Bradley all her real estate in Westport, the remainder of her real and personal estate to him with other devisees. The probate court ordered all of the real estate in the town of Westport owned by the testatrix at the time of her death to be distributed to him.
Two of the heirs at law and residuary legatees, and an assignee of…
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