Legal Opinion · Dissent

Averill v. Lewis

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided October 5, 1927Published

1DissentWheeler, C. J.

I am unable to agree with my brethren in their holding that these appellants have no pecuniary interest in the issue involved in the appeals, nor in their view that the question of whether the right parties have brought this appeal is raised in the motions to erase, nor in several of the technical grounds which the opinion of the court supports as a basis for denying these appellants the relief they seek.

Each of the testatrices, Elizabeth J. Fitch and Mary L. Fitch, sisters, left a will devising and bequeathing substantially her entire estate to her sister, after paying debts and other proper…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Beard's Appeal from County CommissionersSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1894
  2. Norton v. Shore Line Electric Railway Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1911
  3. Dalley v. City of New HavenSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1891
  4. Eliot's Appeal From ProbateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1902
  5. Tappan's Appeal from ProbateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1885

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