Smith v. Wildman
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill in equity, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield county, and heard before Granger, J. The facts were found by a committee and a decree passed for the petitioners. The respondents brought the record before this court by a motion in error. The principles of law decided will be sufficiently understood without a statement of the facts.
1Opinion of the Court
Butler, O. J.
The bill in this case was brought by a cestui-que-trust „ to compel the performance of a trust. The trustees are made parties and also certain residuary devisees. Objection is made by those residuary devisees, of a technical *385character, to the bill. They allege that the bill does not present a case on which the court could act, and for that reason it should have been dismissed, and that therefore there is error in the record. The trustees do not concur in those objections, but desire the opinion of this court upon the merits of the case, as presented by the findings of the…
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