Welch's Appeal from Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from the doings of commissioners on the insolvent estate of George L. Welch, deceased, in disallowing a claim of the appellant; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County.
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Appeal from the doings of commissioners on the insolvent estate of George L. Welch, deceased, in disallowing a claim of the appellant; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County. The following facts were found by a committee: ' The appellant was, on the 8th day of May, 1860, married to George L. Welch, the decedent, of Berlin in this state, with whom she lived as his wife until the 18th day of May, 1873, when, upon her petition, she was lawfully divorced from him by a decree of the Superior Court. By the decree of divorce, the custody of Howard B. Welch, a child of the parties by the…
1Opinion of the CourtFoster, J.
The first question in this case, reserved for the consideration and advice of this court, is, whether the appellant is entitled to recover the expense of supporting the child referred to in the report.
George L. Welch, against whose estate this claim was presented, died on the 6th of July, 1874. At the April term, 1873, of the Superior' Court for the county of Middlesex, the appellant was divorced from the said George L. Welch, to whom she had previously been lawfully married. The custody of a minor child, Howard B. Welch, of the age of two and a half years, the offspring of the marriage, was…
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