Wheeler v. Rockett
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from an order and decree of the Court of Probate for the district of Stratford approving and admitting to probate a certain written instrument as the last will of Ella Keppy of Stratford, deceased, taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Gager, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs, setting aside the will, and appeal by the defendant executor.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The jury gave the plaintiffs a verdict setting aside an alleged will of Mrs. Keppy which had been approved by the Court of Probate. The defend ant alleges error in the court’s refusal to set aside the verdict, and in several rulings upon questions of evidence, in the charge as given, and in refusing to charge as requested.
Upon interrogatories submitted to the jury, they found that the testatrix was not of sound mind when she executed the will in question, and that its execution was brought about by the undue influence of her daughter, Mrs. Walters, and the defendant Rockett. He claims that…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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