Blake v. Union & New Haven Trust Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the district of New Haven approving and admitting to probate a certain written instrument as the last will of Theodore Whitney Blake of Hamden, deceased, taken by the plaintiffs to, and reserved by, the Superior Court in New Haven County, Warner, J., upon the defendants’ demurrer to the reasons of appeal, for the advice of this court.
1Opinion of the CourtCase, J.
The paper which the Court of Probate accepted as Mr. Blake’s will was duly executed by him March 11th, 1911, and admitted to probate January 14th, 1920. Aside from its purely formal parts it is in three paragraphs. The first of them disposes of all the testator’s property to his wife, and the last names her as executrix of the will. The intervening clause is this: “I make no separate provision for any children that I may have, because I know that my wife will herself make such provision for them out of my estate as I should approve and desire.” There were two children of the testator living…
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