Turner's Appeal From Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from a decree of the Court of Probate for the district of New Haven approving a certain instrument as the last will of Caroline Warner of New Haven, deceased, taken to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Slmmway, J.; verdict and judgment sustaining the will, and appeal by the contestant for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court.
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Appeal from a decree of the Court of Probate for the district of New Haven approving a certain instrument as the last will of Caroline Warner of New Haven, deceased, taken to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Slmmway, J.; verdict and judgment sustaining the will, and appeal by the contestant for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. There was evidence to show that the testatrix died in 1898 at {lie age of 79 years, leaving an estate of about $14,500. She had never married, and her nearest surviving relatives were cousins. Jane Turner, a…
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The question asked the witness Mix, on cross-examination, if he had not heard Mr. Webb testify to certain facts in the Court of Probate, without correcting him, was properly excluded. It does not appear that Mr. Mix was present when the last will was prepared, nor that he had testified to what occurred at that time. The facts implied in the question did not therefore contradict his testimony. Nor would Mr. Mix have been called upon to correct a witness in the Court of Probate who, he may have thought, was testifying incorrectly. Such inquiries should not be permitted when their evident…
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