Brooks'
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the District of Winchester approving a certain instrument as the last will of Norman Brooks, deceased, taken to the Superior Court in Litchfield County and tried to the jury before Creorge W. Wheeler, J.; verdict and judgment for the appellant, and motion by the appellees for a new trial (denied by the trial court) for a verdiet against evidence. The ease is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtTorrance, J.
This is a motion for a new trial for a verdict against evidence, made under the provisions of chapter 51 of the Public Acts of 1893.
The contest in the court below related to the validity of the will of Norman Brooks, who died in. July, 1895, aged seventy-eight years, leaving a widow seventy-five years- of age, but no children, nor representatives of them. The will in question was dated the 15th of January, 1895, and, after giving certain legacies to a nephew and three nieces, gave the residue of the estate to Edgar M. Clossey and Ralph H. Moore, as trustees, to hold in trust for the wife of…
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