Jones v. Downs
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to secure the delivery and transfer of trust funds to the plaintiff as the defendant Downs' successor of a testamentary trust, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County where a demurrer to the second defense was sustained (Reed, J.) and the cause was afterward tried to the court, Robinson, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant Downs.
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Action to secure the delivery and transfer of trust funds to the plaintiff as the defendant Downs' successor of a testamentary trust, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County where a demurrer to the second defense was sustained (Reed, J.) and the cause was afterward tried to the court, Robinson, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant Downs. Mary F. Jones died in 1888, domiciled in Stamford in this State, leaving five children, Mary, Eleanor, Virginia, Franklin and William P. Jones, and leaving property in this State and real estate in New…
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The pleadings in this case are unnecessarily prolix. To the second of the three defenses, which were several times amended, there is a demurrer upon some forty grounds, when one tenth of that number would have been sufficient. The demurrer to this defense was sus tained, and a demurrer to the third defense was overruled. A separate discussion of these particular rulings is unnecessary, since the questions presented by these demurrers were afterward raised and decided upon the trial of the case upon its merits.
Upon the facts found by the trial court and those admitted by the pleadings, the…
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