Wilcox's Appeal from Probate
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from two probate decrees, one appointing a certain person as trustee under a testamentary trust and tbe other refusing to appoint another person; taken to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and heard before Andrews, J. Pacts found, and the decree first mentioned reversed, and no action had on the other. Both parties appealed. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
A testator made provision for liis own family, a brother, a nephew, and a niece; and then gave the residue of his property in trust for his daughter. At her decease, without children, the property so held in trust is to be divided into sixteen equal shares which are given to the persons named. Immediately following the disposition of the trust property is the twenty-second clause of the will, which reads as follows:—“ I give and devise all the said trust fund, and also to include all the estate of every kind which I shall own at my decease, not otherwise disposed of by this will, to the above…
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