COCHRAN v. UNITED STATES

Civ. No. 2279.

123 F.Supp. 362 (1954)

Edwin Paul COCHRAN, H. Wadsworth Hight, and Albert M. Chandler, Executors of the Will of Alice F. Cochran, late of New Haven, Connecticut, deceased, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court D. Connecticut, Civil Division.

August 30, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Lyman, Bronson, Rice & Lyman, New Haven, Conn.

Jackson J. Holtz, New Haven, Conn., for plaintiffs.

Simon S. Cohen, U. S. Atty., Dist. Connecticut, Hartford, Conn., for defendant.


ANDERSON, District Judge.

Alice F. Cochran while domiciled in New Haven, Connecticut, died testate on January 24, 1939. In her will, which was admitted to probate in New Haven, she left the residue of her estate "to such charitable, benevolent, religious or educational institutions as my executors hereinafter named may determine." The original plaintiffs, the decedent's husband, Edwin Paul Cochran, her financial adviser, H. Wadsworth Hight, and her attorney, Albert...

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