Meriden Savings Bank v. Wellington
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action in the nature of interpleader to determine the ownership of certain deposits in the plaintiff bank ; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, F. B. Hall, J.; facts found and judgment rendered in favor of Harriet B. Wolcott, and appeal by Hiram B. Wellington, administrator, mainly for alleged erroneous conclusions of the-court as to the facts.
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Action in the nature of interpleader to determine the ownership of certain deposits in the plaintiff bank ; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, F. B. Hall, J.; facts found and judgment rendered in favor of Harriet B. Wolcott, and appeal by Hiram B. Wellington, administrator, mainly for alleged erroneous conclusions of the-court as to the facts. The defendants were the administrators with the will annexed of the estate of Harriet B. Clark, who made the deposits iii the plaintiff bank, and Mrs. Harriet B. Wolcott. They interpleaded, and upon the trial the…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The evidence of Mrs. Clark’s declarations of her attachment to Mrs. Wolcott, and her intention, in the disposition of her property, to do more for her than for any of her other relatives, was relevant, and material. The fact of giving being in dispute, proof of an intention to give, and to give largely, tended directly to support Mrs. Wolcott’s claim, and ivhether the expression of such an intention was three years or three days before the donor’s death was unimportant as respects the competency of the evidence, however it might bear upon the weight to which it was entitled.
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