Legal Opinion
Pavlick v. Meriden Trust & Safe Deposit Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided July 13, 1954PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtInglis, C. J.
The plaintiff appealed from a decree of the Probate Court for the district of Meriden determining the distributees under the will of William V. Pavlicek. The Superior Court rendered judgment sustaining the appeal, and from that judgment the distributees named in the probate decree have appealed. The principal question involved is whether nonresident aliens can take, by devise, title to real estate located in this state.
William V. Pavlicek died on June 4, 1949, leaving the plaintiff, his grandson, as his only heir at law. By his will, which was admitted to probate, he devised and bequeathed…
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