School District No. 3 v. Sheldon
School District No. 3 v. Sheldon
Opinion of the Court
This cause was heard on the defendants’ demurrer to the orator’s bill. It is alleged in the bill that the orator was incorporated as a graded school district by No. 166 of the Acts of 1886; that Albert Whitcomb deceased at Bethel leaving a will, by which he gave the orator “thirty thousand dollars, the principal to be safely invested and the income only to be used each year for the current expenses of the school,” and which provided that if the gift was not accepted, or if its conditions should be violated, the same should be given to, and divided among the three grandchildren of his brother, the late Elias K. Whitcomb; that the will was duly probated and the gift accepted, with its conditions, by the orator; that, on the 12th day of February, 1897, the probate court for the district of Hartford appointed the defendant Guy Wilson trustee of the fund so bequeathed to the orator, and ordered the same paid to him and that he should hold the same in trust for the benefit of the orator, according to the terms of the will; and that the orator had no notice of any application, petition or motion for the appointment of a trustee of said fund. The orator asks to have the legacy ' paid to it, and insists that the probate court, in appointing a trustee not named in the will, has exceeded its authority, and that its order, in that respect, is absolutely void and a nullity.
The orator does not show by its bill that there is any occasion for the appointment of a trustee, or that it has resorted to the probate court for the recovery of the legacy, or that it has not an adequate remedy in that court; therefore, it does not make a case over which this court has jurisdiction, and the bill must be dismissed and the orator left to pursue its remedy in the probate court.
The pro-forma decree of the court of chancery is affirmed, with costs, and cause remanded.
Reference
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- School District No. 3 of the Town of Bethel v. M. L. Sheldon
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