Dickinson v. Hayes
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Ejectment; tried to the jury, in the superior court, on the general issue, before Park, J. On the trial the plaintiff claimed title to the demanded premises as the heir at law of Frances E. Hubbard, deceased.
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Ejectment; tried to the jury, in the superior court, on the general issue, before Park, J. On the trial the plaintiff claimed title to the demanded premises as the heir at law of Frances E. Hubbard, deceased. The defendants claimed title to the same under the will of the said Frances, which had been proved, and approved by the court of probate for the district of Middletown, in which the deceased last dwelt; by which will the testatrix had bequeathed all her personal estate, amounting to a large sum, and had also devised the real estate in question, to one Betsey H. Dickinson, under whom the…
1Opinion of the CourtSanford, J.
The only question made in this case is, whether the plaintiff, one of the heirs of Frances E. Hubbard, deceased, was at liberty to prove that the said Frances, under whose will the defendants claimed title to the land in controversy, was at the time she made the will, and at the time of her death, a minor between seventeen and twenty-one years of age.
The instrument under which the defendants claimed was in form a testamentary paper, purporting to dispose both of personal property and real estate, had been duly proved, approved, and established by the decree of the proper court of probate, as…
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