Willetts' Appeal from Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from a decree of the probate court of the district of Greenwich, denying the probate of a will; taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County.
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Appeal from a decree of the probate court of the district of Greenwich, denying the probate of a will; taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County. The following facts were found by the court:— Alice Fowler died at Greenwich in this state February 7th, 1875. Soon after her death, the court of probate for the district of Greenwich granted administration upon her estate to one William C. Field, and in the decree found that she had her domicil within that district at the time o of her death, that she had died intestate therein, and that at the time of her death she had goods and estate…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
(After stating the facts.) It is urged by the appellees that the will in question is not valid in the state of New York because it was executed in this state; that the probate court in this state having first decided the question as to the domicil of the testatrix at her death, it was not in the power of the court in New York to make a contrary decision which would be binding on the probate court; and that our statute (Gen. Statutes, p. 369, sec. 2,) providing that “ all wills executed according to the laws of the state or country where they were executed may be admitted to probate in this…
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