Goodsell's Appeal from Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from the decree of a court of probate approving and allowing the will of John Goodsell; taken to the Sujierior Court in Fairfield County and heard before Sanford, J. The following facts were found by the court: The appellant is the widow of the testator. They were married May 29, 1871. The will was made before the testator and the appellant became engaged to be married.
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Appeal from the decree of a court of probate approving and allowing the will of John Goodsell; taken to the Sujierior Court in Fairfield County and heard before Sanford, J. The following facts were found by the court: The appellant is the widow of the testator. They were married May 29, 1871. The will was made before the testator and the appellant became engaged to be married. The testator died February 14th, 1886, never having had a child, and leaving a brother and the son of a deceased brother as his next of kin. The inventory of his estate amounts to $16,234.91, of which about $5,800 is…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
John Goodsell made his will in January, 1871, disposing of real and personal estate. He Avas married in the folloAving May; he died in 1886; his Avife survives; no child Avas born to them. A. brother and a nepheAV are next of kin. He left the Avill executed in 1871; it made no mention of his wife; she Avas not known to him Avhen it was executed. The court of probate approved the will and admitted it to probate. The widow, Sarah H. Goodsell, appealed. The Superior Court dismissed the appeal and affirmed the decree of the probate court. The Avidow and a nepheAV of the testator join in an appeal…
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