Mooney v. Mooney
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Shit to obtain a conveyance of real estate and an accounting of the rents and profits thereof, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Fairfield County, Reed, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiffs.
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Shit to obtain a conveyance of real estate and an accounting of the rents and profits thereof, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Fairfield County, Reed, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiffs. The essential allegations of the complaint are, in -substance, as follows :— 1. December 18th, 1892, Ann Mooney was a widow, with three sons living, to wit: William J., John T., and Frank J. On that da3r she executed 'a quitclaim deed, absolute on its face, purporting to convey to her son Frank J. a lot of land, with a house thereon, on Calhoun…
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
The subordinate facts found by the court establish beyond question the fact that Ann Mooney conveyed to Frank J. Mooney the land in controversy, of her own free will and unaccompanied by any trust in favor of his brothers, whether this conclusion be treated as one of fact or of law. The plaintiffs’ claim, therefore, that the court erred in ruling that the plaintiffs were not entitled to a conveyance by the defendants of an undivided two thirds of this land, with an accounting for the income thereof, is obviously not entitled to consideration.
Upon the trial the plaintiffs produced as witnesses…
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