Webster v. Wiers
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit, by the executors of Lucy Churchill, for advice as to the construction of a codicil to her will; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford county. The testatrix died March 30th, 1883, possessed of considerable real and personal estate. She left a will dated December 20th, 1877, and the codicil in question dated, November 17th, 1880. The will contained the. following clause: “3d.
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Suit, by the executors of Lucy Churchill, for advice as to the construction of a codicil to her will; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford county. The testatrix died March 30th, 1883, possessed of considerable real and personal estate. She left a will dated December 20th, 1877, and the codicil in question dated, November 17th, 1880. The will contained the. following clause: “3d. I direct my executor hereinafter named, to sell, either at public, or private sale at his discretion, all my estate real and personal, and, after payment of all. debts and charges, including item second, divide…
1Opinion of the CourtPark, C. J.
The question presented by this case is with regard to the construction to be given to a clause of the codicil to the-will of Lucy Churchill, which is as follows: —
*575“I give and bequeath to my'grand-nephew, Milton .MWoodford, all my household effects, books and papers of value, and everything tire house contains, the same to’ be taken by him without, inventory or appraisal, to be his and his heirs’ forever.”
At the time of her -death tire testatrix had $2,500 in the savings bank of the Society for Savings in the city of Hartford, and her bank book showing the amount of her deposits there was…
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