Lockwood v. Lockwood
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from a decree of the Court of Probate for the district of Norwalk approving and admitting to probate a certain instrument in writing as the last will and testament of Sarah J. Lockwood of New Canaan, deceased, taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Ralph Wheeler, J. ; verdict and judgment for the contestants setting aside certain portions of the will, and appeal by the proponents.
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Appeal from a decree of the Court of Probate for the district of Norwalk approving and admitting to probate a certain instrument in writing as the last will and testament of Sarah J. Lockwood of New Canaan, deceased, taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Ralph Wheeler, J. ; verdict and judgment for the contestants setting aside certain portions of the will, and appeal by the proponents. The reasons of appeal to this court allege error (1) in the charge of the trial court to the jury; (2) in rulings upon evidence; and (3) in denying a motion for a new…
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
Sarah J. Lockwood, the testatrix of the will in dispute, died December 30th, 1903. Her husband, William Lockwood, died intestate in 1878, leaving her and nine children surviving him, and an estate which inventoried about $93,000. At his death the youngest of the children was about three years old, and the three elder children were of age. About $7,500 was distributed to each of the nine children, and to the widow about $20,000, and her life interest in one third of the real estate was set to her in a piece of farm land appraised at $8,000. In 1888 the testatrix received a bequest from her own…
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