Nicoll v. Irby
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to determine the validity and construction of the will of John E. Law of Cheshire, deceased, brought to and reserved by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Williams, J., upon the facts stated in the complaint, for the advice of this court.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The testator, John E. Law, died at Cheshire in September, 1885. His will, dated January 29th, 1883, was admitted to probate in October, 1885. All of the testator’s property is by the will given to trustees, in trust, to expend annually from the income thereof 850 in caring for the town burying-ground in Cheshire, “attention being first given to the lot or lots in said burial ground wherein my ancestors, Father, Grandfather & etc. he buried,” and to apply all the remaining income of the estate to the support and maintenance of the testator’s brother, William Law, so long as he shall live, and…
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