WHEAT v. WHEAT


156 Conn. 575 (1968)

CLAYTON E. WHEAT, JR., EXECUTOR (ESTATE OF ROBERTA S. C. WHEAT) v. CLAYTON E. WHEAT, SR., ET AL. (APPEAL FROM PROBATE) CLAYTON E. WHEAT, JR., EXECUTOR (ESTATE OF ROBERTA S. C. WHEAT) v. CLAYTON E. WHEAT, SR.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided June 25, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morgan P. Ames and Ridgway M. Hall, Jr., for the appellant (proponent in the first case and plaintiff in the second).

Robert A. Fuller, with whom, on the brief, was John Keogh, Jr., for the appellee (contestant in the first case and defendant in the second).

KING, C. J., ALCORN, HOUSE, THIM and RYAN, JS.


KING, C. J.

The first of the above-entitled cases is an appeal by the proponent from the decree of the Probate Court for the district of Darien denying admission to probate of a purported will of Roberta

Stockton Cox Wheat dated November 1, 1958. From this decision the proponent, who was the executor and virtually the sole beneficiary of the 1958 will, took an appeal to the Superior Court, alleging in his reasons...

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