Humason v. Andrews
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover the income accrued from certain property bequeathed to two tenants for life, brought by the surviving life tenant to the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County and tried to the court, Oase, J., upon the defendants’ demurrer to the complaint; the court overruled the demurrer and afterwards rendered judgment for the plaintiffs, and the defendants appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The plaintiffs are seeking by this action to recover from the administrator of the estate of Thomas Burrill one half of the income of said estate received by said defendant since the death of the testator’s daughter, Mary Martin. The right of the plaintiffs to recover depends upon the right of Julia Humason to receive the entire income from her father’s estate after the death of her sister, Mary Martin, by reason of the following language of the second clause of the will of Thomas Burrill: “ Second. I give to my daughters, Mary Martin and Julia Humason, the use and improvement of all my…
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