Bishop v. Bishop.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to determine the respective rights of life tenants and remaindermen under the will of Julia Ann Bishop of Bridgeport, in and to bonds of the Adams Express Company issued by it to its stockholders in 1907, and to one hundred and six shares of the newly issued capital stock of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, brought to and reserved by the Superior Court in Fairfield County, Reed, J., upon the facts stated in the complaint and answers, for the advice of this court.
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Suit to determine the respective rights of life tenants and remaindermen under the will of Julia Ann Bishop of Bridgeport, in and to bonds of the Adams Express Company issued by it to its stockholders in 1907, and to one hundred and six shares of the newly issued capital stock of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, brought to and reserved by the Superior Court in Fairfield County, Reed, J., upon the facts stated in the complaint and answers, for the advice of this court. Julia Ann Bishop died October 9th, 1906, leaving a will, five children, and an estate which included one hundred shares of…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
Mary F. Bishop, as the life beneficiary of one of the trusts created by her mother’s will in a one fifth share of the latter’s estate, claims to be entitled to receive in her own right one fifth of both the Adams Express Company bonds and the Westinghouse Air Brake Company stock which came into the hands of the executors as original issues, whether or not they are to be regarded as income of the testatrix’s estate in that sense which would entitle her as fife tenant to share in their division. William D. Bishop, the life beneficiary of the trust similarly created in another one fifth, asserts…
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