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MOREHOUSE v. BRIDGEPORT-CITY TRUST CO.

137 Conn. 209 (1950)

H. LIVINGSTON MOREHOUSE ET AL. v. BRIDGEPORT-CITY TRUST COMPANY, ADMINISTRATOR C. T. A. (ESTATE OF OLIVER H. MEEKER) LOUIS E. MOREHOUSE ET AL. v. BRIDGEPORT-CITY TRUST COMPANY, ADMINISTRATOR C. T. A. (ESTATE OF OLIVER H. MEEKER) MARY C. AMBLER ET AL. v. BRIDGEPORT-CITY TRUST COMPANY, ADMINISTRATOR C. T. A. (ESTATE OF OLIVER H. MEEKER)

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided August 8, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Ryle, for the appellants (plaintiffs Louis E. Morehouse et al.).

Abraham D. Slavitt, for the appellants (plaintiffs Ambler et al.).

Alvin C. Breul, Jr., for the appellants (plaintiffs H. Livingston Morehouse et al.).

Bernard S. Peck, with whom were Philip Y. Reinhart, William W. Bent and, on the brief, Thomas B. Coughlin, Frederick E. Morgan and Norris Rossinoff, for the appellees (defendants).

BROWN, C. J., JENNINGS, BALDWIN, INGLIS and MELLITZ, JS.

INGLIS, J.

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...

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