Security Co. v. Pratt
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit by the Seourifcjr Company, a Connecticut corporation, as administrator, cum testamento annexo on the estate of Nancie W. Hall, deceased, for directions as to its duties under the will; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County where certain of the defendants filed a petition to remove the cause to the United States Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut, which petition the court, George W. Wheeler, Jdenied; and thereafter judgment was rendered by the…
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Suit by the Seourifcjr Company, a Connecticut corporation, as administrator, cum testamento annexo on the estate of Nancie W. Hall, deceased, for directions as to its duties under the will; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County where certain of the defendants filed a petition to remove the cause to the United States Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut, which petition the court, George W. Wheeler, Jdenied; and thereafter judgment was rendered by the court, Shumway, Ji, construing the will, from which the defendants, other than Mary A. Pratt, appealed for alleged errors of…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
This is an action by an administrator cum testamento annexo, for directions as to its duties, and the construction of the will. Such a proceeding falls within the ordinary jurisdiction of courts of equity respecting the administration of trusts, and the provisions of General Statutes, § 1124, as to allowances for expenses and counsel fees, are merely declaratory of the existing rules of chancery practice. 2 Perry on Trusts, § 928; 1 Redfield on Wills, Chap. IX., § 7; Crosby v. Mason, 32 Conn., 482.
General Statutes § 559 provides that “ when a life estate in any personal estate shall be given…
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