Mack's Appeal from Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the district of Stamford, upon an application to ascertain the heirs at law and distributees of the estate of Charles F. A. Mack, of Stamford, deceased, taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and reserved by that court, Thayer, J., upon an agreed statement of facts, for the consideration and advice of this court.
1Opinion of the CourtHameksley, J.
The will in question was admitted to probate in 1892. The executors having declined to serve, an administratrix with the will annexed was appointed, who settled the estate and rendered her administration account, which showed a balance in her hands consisting of land on Franklin street in Stamford valued at $4,000, and personal estate valued at $12,813.95. This land and residue was devised and bequeathed in trust by the 17th, 20th and 21st clauses of the will.* In 1893, the appellant, a nephew of *126the testator and one of the cestui que trust under the will, filed in the Court of Probate an…
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