Buckingham v. Jacques
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Amicable submission to the Superior Court in Fairfield county upon an agreed statement of facts. Certain real estate in controversy in the suit belonged in fee in the year 1825 to Samuel Burr, who died in that year leaving all his estate to his three daughters, Lucretia Weeks, Clarissa Ells, and Abigail Nichols.
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Amicable submission to the Superior Court in Fairfield county upon an agreed statement of facts. Certain real estate in controversy in the suit belonged in fee in the year 1825 to Samuel Burr, who died in that year leaving all his estate to his three daughters, Lucretia Weeks, Clarissa Ells, and Abigail Nichols. Lucretia Weeks acquired by conveyance the shares of the two others, and afterwards died, leaving one daughter, Ann, who died leaving a son, Everitt Weeks, who soon after died without issue. Clarissa Ells died, leaving one daughter who died without issue. Abigail Nichols died, leaving…
1Opinion of the CourtSeymour, J.
We are called upon in this suit to give a construction to that part of the statute of distribution which relates to ancestral estate. The language of the statute is as follows:
“All the real estate of the intestate which came to him by descent, gift or devise from his parent, ancestor, or other kindred, shall belong equally to the brothers and sisters of the intestate and those who legally represent them of the blood of the person or ancestor from whom such estate came or descended; and in case there be no brothers or sisters or legal representatives as aforesaid, then equally to the children…
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