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Heald v. Briggs

74 A. 1123, 83 Conn. 5, 1910 Conn. LEXIS 14
CourtSupreme Court of Connecticut
DecidedJanuary 18, 1910
StatusPublished
Cited by1 cases

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Bluebook
Heald v. Briggs, 74 A. 1123, 83 Conn. 5, 1910 Conn. LEXIS 14 (Colo. 1910).

Opinion

Hall, J.

Jeremy H. Holcomb, late of East Granby, Connecticut, born January 24th, 1824, died January 20th, 1883. He executed a will September 18th, 1870, containing the following among other provisions:—

“Thirdly all the rest and residue of my Estate both real & personal of which I shall die possessed I give & devise the use of the same to my Wife Caroline M. Holcomb during her natural life & at her death I will all of said Estate to my Legal heirs or to Such of them as my said Wife may designate by her Will.”

At his death the testator left a widow, the said Caroline M. Holcomb, two brothers, Oswald C. and Edwin Y. Holcomb, and a sister, Julia Matilda Holcomb, wife of Henry Merwin, and two nephews and five nieces, children of his said sister Julia Matilda Holcomb (Merwin), and also three grandnieces, children of Cicero H. Merwin, one of his nephews, namely, Mary Alexander Merwin (Willoughby), Milie Hopper Merwin (Adams), and Caroline M. Merwin (Sanford).

*7 Caroline M. Holcomb, the testator’s widow, died September 6th, 1909. Her husband’s two brothers and sister had died before her, neither of the brothers leaving either a widow or children. Cicero H. Merwin and Julia Griswold Merwin (Ennis), two of the said children of the testator’s sister, Julia Matilda Holcomb (Merwin), had also died before the widow, Caroline M. Holcomb, as had also two of the said daughters of Cicero H. Merwin, namely, Mary Alexander Merwin (Willoughby), born in 1875, and who left surviving her a husband and one minor child, Viola M. Willoughby, and Milie Hopper Merwin (Adams), who left a husband and no children. These facts will more clearly appear from the table below:—

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74 A. 1123, 83 Conn. 5, 1910 Conn. LEXIS 14, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/heald-v-briggs-conn-1910.