Coogan v. Lynch
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover, as damages, moneys advanced by the plaintiff to the defendant’s testator upon his alleged oral promise to leave her all his property, consisting of real estate, at his death, which he failed to do, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Shumway, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $7,494, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
Only the second and third assignments of error are relied upon. The complaint alleged, in substance, that the plaintiff, by several different payments, turned over to her husband during his lifetime the total sum of $4,850 on his express promise to leave her all his property at his death; that he died leaving a will by which a considerable part of the property was given to children by a former marriage; and that the plaintiff had presented her claim to the administrator and it had been disallowed. The answer admitted the payments in question, but denied the promise, and, as a further defense,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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