Bronson v. Strouse
| Decision Date | 04 January 1889 |
| Citation | 57 Conn. 147,17 A. 699 |
| Court | Connecticut Supreme Court |
| Parties | BRONSON et al. v. STROUSE et al. |
Case reserved from superior court, New Haven county.
Suit by Samuel L. Bronson and another, executors, against Isaac Strouse and others, heirs at law of testatrix, for the construction of a will.
W. L. Bennett, for plaintiffs. H. W. Asher, for defendants.
PARDEE, J. Esther Ullman died in 1887, leaving a will, by which she required the executor's therein named to sell the real estate of which she should die possessed as soon after her decease as they should deem it expedient so to do; and, according to the second paragraph, —and, according to the fortieth paragraph: The executors asked the superior court to construe the will, and determine as to the validity and effect of the second and fortieth paragraphs, and the case is reserved for the advice of this court.
As to the two uses specified in the second paragraph, it is the claim of the defendants that the first is not charitable, and that the second is not certain.
1. By statute a bequest for the care of a burial lot is put upon the same ground with a public and charitable use. Gen. St. § 2951.
2. This court has determined that bequests were valid for the following uses: In "aid of such indigent, needy, and meritorious widows and orphan children of the town of Winchester, aforesaid, as may need temporary help;" for "the special benefit of the worthy, deserving, poor, white, American, Protestant, Democratic widows and orphans residing in the town of Bridgeport;" for "the charitable assistance and benefit of indigent unmarried Protestant females over the age of eighteen residing in the city of Bridgeport;" and for the "founding a home for aged, respectable, indigent,...
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