Wainwright v. Talcott
Supreme Court of Connecticut
ACTION to recover for money expended by the plaintiff in improvements on real estate owned in common by the plaintiff’s wife and the defendant’s testator, made under a promise of the latter that his interest in the property should be devised to the plaintiff’s wife, and that she should have the benefit of the improvements ; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County.
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ACTION to recover for money expended by the plaintiff in improvements on real estate owned in common by the plaintiff’s wife and the defendant’s testator, made under a promise of the latter that his interest in the property should be devised to the plaintiff’s wife, and that she should have the benefit of the improvements ; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County. After a demurrer to certain counts of the complaint had been overruled, the case was tried upon the facts, on ah issue closed to the court, before Thayer, J. Facts found, and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal…
1Opinion of the CourtTorrANCE, J.
From the finding of facts in this case it appears that prior to 1870 a certain lot of land in Hartford was owned in common and undivided by John L. Talcott and Thomas, his brother, the former owning four fifths and the latter one fifth. Thomas died in 1870, and his interest in the land then descended to his daughter, now the wife of the plaintiff, subject to her mother’s right of dower. John L. Talcott had no sister and Thomas was his only brother. He had no nephews, and no nieces save the wife of the plaintiff. John L. Talcott and the defendant, who is his executrix, intermarried in 1876,…
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