Case Name: Hinsdale against Gillet
Court: Connecticut Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1785-08
Citations: 2 Kirby 1
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hinsdale against Gillet.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 1–2

Head Matter:
County of Litchfield,
Aug. Term, 1785
Hinsdale against Gillet.

Opinion:
And
By the Court:
This cafe must be governed by the law as it stood when the descent was cast. The statute passed at the revision of the laws in the year 1784 can have no retrospect to cases which happened before. By the construction usually given to the statute before the revision, the mother was next of kin and ought to succeed as heir to the son in exclusion of uncles and aunts.