Delehanty v. Pitkin
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the district of Hartford refusing to. admit to probate a certain instrument as the last will and testament of Henry Kennedy, deceased, taken to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court, Shumway, J., upon demurrer of defendants to the plaintiff’s answer to a plea in abatement and to the jurisdiction; the court sustained the demurrer and dismissed the cause, and the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtTorrance, C. J.
In March, 1899, the Court of Probate for the district of Hartford approved a writing, dated December 29th, 1898, as the last will of Henry Kennedy. In January, 1903, Delehanty, the appellant here, offered for probate in said court a writing, dated February 24th, 1899, purporting to be a later and the last will of Kennedy, and petitioned the court in writing to set aside its approval of the former will and to approve of the later will in its stead. For brevity, the will made in December may be called the December will, and the other the February will. The court denied the petition, and from…
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