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KEOGH v. JANN

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10 Conn. App. 183 (1987)

GRENVILLE T. KEOGH III ET AL. v. GAYLE JANN ET AL.

Appellate Court of Connecticut.

Decision released March 17, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Wayne Fox, with whom, on the brief, was Susan L. Stratton, for the appellants (named defendant et al.).

D. Seeley Hubbard, with whom, on the brief, was Edward T. Krumeich, for the appellees (plaintiffs).

DUPONT, C. J., HULL and SPALLONE, JS.

DUPONT, C.J.

This appeal arises out of a dispute over the construction of the will of Grenville T. Keogh. The issue to be determined is whether the language of the will gave the testator's second wife a life estate or a fee simple absolute estate in one third of the residue of his estate. The trial court concluded that she was devised a life estate.

The will was executed in 1975 when the testator was married to Jane Keogh. She predeceased him in 1980. In 1981...

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