Morehouse v. Bridgeport-City Trust Co.

Oliver H. Meeker, a resident of Fairfield, died July 29, 1947, leaving a last will dated September 18,1936, the residuary clause of which appears in full in the footnote. 1 The beneficiaries named in the first three numbered paragraphs of that clause predeceased the testator. In entering its order of distribution, the Probate Court decided that the bequests contained in those paragraphs had lapsed and become intestate estate and decreed that the parts of the residuary estate referred to therein should be distributed to the heirs-at-law of the testator. From that decree the heirs and next of…