Lane's Appeal from Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from a probate decree approving and allowing an instrument purporting to be the will of Hannah P. Dim-mick, deceased; taken to the Superior Court in Windham County, and heard before Sandford, J. The court found, the following facts: The instrument in question was signed by the testatrix as her will at Killingly, in this state, in January, 1879, but on what day of the month did not appear.
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Appeal from a probate decree approving and allowing an instrument purporting to be the will of Hannah P. Dim-mick, deceased; taken to the Superior Court in Windham County, and heard before Sandford, J. The court found, the following facts: The instrument in question was signed by the testatrix as her will at Killingly, in this state, in January, 1879, but on what day of the month did not appear. The following attestation was placed upon it, below the signature of the testatrix: “ Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Hannah P. Dimmick as and for her last will and testament, in…
1Opinion of the Court
Loomis J.
In January, 1879, Mrs. Hannah P. Dimick made and executed what purported to be her last will and testament. It was first signed by her in the presence of only one witness, and subsequently taken to the second witness, and after that to the third, each of whom signed as a witness in the absence of the other two. This paper remained without change until the death of the testatrix on the sixth day of February, 1888, and afterwards on the third day of March, 1888, the same was presented to the probate court and there approved as her last will and testament. Upon appeal to the Superior…
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