Minor v. Ferris
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action on a bond, given by the defendants, as executors of the last will and testament of Hartwell Reed, deceased, to the plaintiff, as judge of probate for the district of Stamford. The defendants set out the condition of the bond, which was in the usual form, and pleaded performance generally.
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This was an action on a bond, given by the defendants, as executors of the last will and testament of Hartwell Reed, deceased, to the plaintiff, as judge of probate for the district of Stamford. The defendants set out the condition of the bond, which was in the usual form, and pleaded performance generally. In the replication, the plaintiff set out the will of the deceased, alleged the settlement of the administration account of the defendants, and assigned, as breaches of their bond, their failure and refusal to pay and deliver over to Mary Fairchild, the wife of-Fair-child, and a sister of…
1Opinion of the CourtStores, J.
We shall confine ourselves to the question ar-
gued hy the counsel in this case ; which is, whether, by the true construction of the will of the testator, his personal property, excepting that which was specifically bequeathed, and what should be wanted for the payment of debts and general legacies, was given by him absolutely and unqualifiedly to his sister, on his decease ; or, whether it was given to her, subject to the trust, on which the real estate had been devised, that it was to constitute and remain a fund, so far as it was required, for the support of his wife during her life.
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