Peters v. Abbott
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the district of New Haven refusing to accept the account of a testamentary trustee as rendered by his administrator, the plaintiff, and requiring its amendment, taken to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Curtis, J.; facts found and judgment rendered in favor of the defendant, dismissing the appeal, from which the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtGager, J.
Lydia S. Dickerman died testate in 1905. By the first fourteen clauses of her will she disposed of $27,000 of her property, of which $5,000 was given absolutely to her husband, Robert Dickerman. By the 15th clause of her will Mrs. Dickerman gave her husband the life use of the residue of her estate with the power of sale. The 15th clause of the will, out of which the present controversy arises, reads as follows: “Fifteenth. I give, devise and bequeath the use, income and improvement of all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, of whatever name and nature and wherever situated to my…
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