Brainerd v. Cowdrey
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an appeal from a decree of the court of probate for the district of East-Haddam, directing the executor of the last will and testament of Epaphroditus Champion, to sell as much of the stock of the East-Haddam bank, belonging to said Champion’s estate, as should be necessary to pay a certain debt due to that bank, from said estate.
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This was an appeal from a decree of the court of probate for the district of East-Haddam, directing the executor of the last will and testament of Epaphroditus Champion, to sell as much of the stock of the East-Haddam bank, belonging to said Champion’s estate, as should be necessary to pay a certain debt due to that bank, from said estate. E. Champion died in July, 1841. On the 30th of June, 1841, a few days before his death, he made his last will and testament, containing the following clauses: “I direct my lawful debts to be paid; my cotton goods on hand and in the hands of my agents being…
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, Ch. J.
The question upon this appeal, is, what property is given to the appellant, by this will, in the East-Haddam bank stock.
The testator, on the 3d of July, 1841, after having made a disposition of a part of his personal property, on the 30th of June, completed the disposition of his whole estate, both real and personal; and having given to Hannah Brainerd, the appellant, by the former will, as the friend of his mother, the use of sundry articles, which he deemed of peculiar value, he now makes a more substantial donation in these words: “I give to Miss Hannah Brainerd of…
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