Watertown Ecclesiastical Society's Appeal from Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from the doings of commissioners on the estate of Orlando Penn, in allowing a claim of Delia Penn against the estate; brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield County, and tried to the jury before Sanford, J. Verdict for the appellee, and motion for a new trial by the appellants. There was also a motion in arrest of judgment, which the court overruled, and which was brought before this court by a motion in error. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
Orlando Fenn died in 1876, leaving a will by which he devised his entire estate to the First Ecclesiastical Society and Church 'in Watertown, upon condition .that his executors should take possesion of, hold, manage and control it during the life of his sister, Delia Fenn, and pay to her so much thereof as she should, in their judgment, at any time need for her comfortable and proper support, and at her decease pay over whatever remained to said society. The executors represented the estate to be insolvent, and commissioners were appointed'to receive and decide upon the claims of creditors.…
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