Miles
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the District of Milford, refusing to admit to probate a certain clause in the will of Diana M. Miles, taken to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, Hall, J.; facts found and judgment rendered in favor of the appellants, and appeal by the original appellees for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the District of Milford, refusing to admit to probate a certain clause in the will of Diana M. Miles, taken to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, Hall, J.; facts found and judgment rendered in favor of the appellants, and appeal by the original appellees for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion. Upon the facts proved the legal presumption was that the cancellation was made by the testatrix animo revoeandi, and the burden of proving the contrary was upon…
1Opinion of the CourtFenn, J.
Diana M. Miles, late of Milford in this State, died in 1891, being then about eighty-six years of age. She left a will dated and executed February 13th, 1879. This will, in addition to the formal parts and the clause appointing an executor, contained two sections only, which-are as follows :—
“ First. After all my lawful debts are paid and discharged I give, devise, and bequeath to my nieces, Susan Whittlesey and Isabel Newton, daughters of my brother Charles, to each of them ten shares of the capital stock of The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, being in all twenty shares of…
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