Leffingwell's Appeal From Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
New Haven & Fairfield Cos., June T., 1892. Andrews, G. J., Carpenter, Seymour, Torrance and Fenn, Js. Appeals from a decree of the probate court of the district of New Haven, ordering the distribution of $74,864.46, atnong- the residuary legatees of William Leffingwell, deceased; taken to the Superior Court in NevrHaven'County.' The amount ordered distributed was thebalance. of $76,064.45 in the hands of Oliver S.-White, administrator de bonis non, with the will annexed, of…
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New Haven & Fairfield Cos., June T., 1892. Andrews, G. J., Carpenter, Seymour, Torrance and Fenn, Js. Appeals from a decree of the probate court of the district of New Haven, ordering the distribution of $74,864.46, atnong- the residuary legatees of William Leffingwell, deceased; taken to the Superior Court in NevrHaven'County.' The amount ordered distributed was thebalance. of $76,064.45 in the hands of Oliver S.-White, administrator de bonis non, with the will annexed, of the said William Leffingwell, upon the settlement of his administration- account in the probate court. This $76,064.45…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
Each of these appeals was taken from an order of the probate court for the district of New Haven made on the 9th day of March, 1892. They were argued together and depend on the same reasoning.
The order was as follows:—“District of New Haven, ss. Probate Court, March 9th, 1892. Estate of William Leffingwell, late of New Haven in said district, deceased. Upon the settlement of the administration account of said estate there remains for distribution in the hands of the administrator the sum of 74,864 dollars and 46 cents in residuary personal estate; arid there being the following residuary…
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