Porter v. Woodhouse
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Two actions to compel the defendant to deliver to the plaintiff in eacli case a deed of certain real estate, left for delivery after her death by Julia A. Hinman, the grantor; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried before Thayer j. Facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant in both cases. The plaintiffs appealed. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
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Two actions to compel the defendant to deliver to the plaintiff in eacli case a deed of certain real estate, left for delivery after her death by Julia A. Hinman, the grantor; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and tried before Thayer j. Facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant in both cases. The plaintiffs appealed. The case is fully stated in the opinion. The two cases involved the same facts and were tried together in the court below and a single finding made, and they were argued together in this court. There is no specific form of words required in cases like…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
These are two cases tried together and depending on the same facts. The defendant is the executor of the will of Mrs. Julia Hinman, late of Hartford, deceased. The complaint prays that two deeds now in the possession of the defendant be delivered, one to the said Nora J. Porter, and the other to the said Julia Robertson. The only question in the case is, whether on the facts found these deeds were so delivered as to pass the title. The facts are as follows:—
Mrs. Julia Hinman in her lifetime, and until her death, owned two houses in Plartford, in one of which she lived. She died on the 10th…
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