Dick v. Colonial Trust Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the district of Waterbury approving and admitting to probate a certain written instrument as the last will of Agnes Dick Munson of Waterbury, deceased, taken to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Bennett, J.; verdict and judgment for the defendant, sustaining the will, and appeal by the plaintiffs.
1Opinion of the CourtRoraback, J.
On the trial of the cause it was conceded that the testatrix, Agnes Dick Munson, died at Waterbury on April 23d, 1912. At this time she was seventy-three years of age. The purported will was made on November 9th, 1911, at Waterbury. This will was admitted to probate on the 18th day of October, 1912, and on November 13th following an appeal was taken to the Superior Court in New Haven County.
The reasons of appeal urged upon the trial of the case in the Superior Court were, that the paper admitted to probate was not the last will of the testatrix, because at the time it was signed she did not…
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