Main's Appeal From Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the District of Enfield approving an administration account, taken to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court, Robinson, J.; facts found and judgment rendered reversing the action of the Court of Probate, and appeal by the administratrix for alleged errors in the rulings and findings of the court.
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Appeal from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the District of Enfield approving an administration account, taken to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court, Robinson, J.; facts found and judgment rendered reversing the action of the Court of Probate, and appeal by the administratrix for alleged errors in the rulings and findings of the court. This is an appeal by one of the four daughters of Sarah A. Goodrich, who died in November, 1898, from the order of the Court of Probate allowing the account of Martha A. Goodrich, another of said daughters, as…
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The principal question in controversy is whether the entire sum of $2,090, on deposit in the Dime Savings Bank of Norwich, belongs to the estate of Sarah A. Goodrich, or whether one half of it belongs to her three daughters whose names appear, respectively, with that of their mother in the three deposit books. This money belonged to Sarah A. Goodrich, and was on deposit in her name in said bank on the 24th of September, 1895, and the title of said three daughters to a part of said sum depends wholly upon the question of whether there was a valid gift of it to them by their mother.
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2Cases cited15 opinions
- Beaver v. . BeaverNew York Court of Appeals · 1889
- Whalen v. MilhollandCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1899
- Gerrish v. New Bedford Institution for SavingsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1880
- Minor v. RogersSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1873
- Sanford v. . SanfordNew York Court of Appeals · 1871
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3Cited by40 opinions
- Hayward v. PlantSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1923
- State v. BentonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1971
- Linahan v. LinahanSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1944
- Battles v. Millbury Savings BankMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1924
- Candee v. Connecticut Savings BankSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1908
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