Lee v. Lee
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to determine the construction of the will of Louise M. Lee of Hartford, deceased, brought to and reserved by the Superior Court in Hartford County, Holcomb, J., upon an agreed statement of facts, for the advice of this court. The reservation presents two questions.
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Suit to determine the construction of the will of Louise M. Lee of Hartford, deceased, brought to and reserved by the Superior Court in Hartford County, Holcomb, J., upon an agreed statement of facts, for the advice of this court. The reservation presents two questions. The testatrix executed a will in December, 1897, by the third clause of which she gave to her sister Sarah R. Guinn $10,000, and to her sister Jerusha A. Winsolow $5,000. Both of these legatees having died, the testatrix, in January, 1908, executed a codicil reaffirming all the provisions of her will except as altered by the…
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
The question whether the legacies to the sisters who died before the testatrix are saved for the benefit of their issue, by § 296 of the General Statutes, depends primarily on the effect to be given to the execution of the codicil of 1908, as a republication of the will of 1897. The defendants who are residuary legatees, rely upon the rule that the execution of a codicil, which in terms ratifies and confirms a previous will, gives to the original will the same force and effect in law as if it' had been rewritten, re-executed, and republished at the date of the codicil. Giddings v. Giddings,…
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