FIRST NATIONAL BANK & TRUST CO. v. PARISH OF ST. THOMAS' CHURCH


141 Conn. 489 (1954)

THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF NEW HAVEN, TRUSTEE (ESTATE OF C. PURDY LINDSLEY) v. THE PARISH OF ST. THOMAS' CHURCH ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided July 20, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard H. Bowerman, for the defendant Lindsley McChesney.

Curtiss K. Thompson, with whom, on the brief, was John H. Weir, for the named defendant.

INGLIS, C. J., BALDWIN, O'SULLIVAN, WYNNE and DALY, JS.


DALY, J.

Upon this reservation we are asked to construe the twelfth and fifteenth articles of the will of C. Purdy Lindsley as modified by articles VI and VII of a codicil thereto. These paragraphs are set forth in full in the footnote.1 The will was executed on July 31, 1935. By article VI of the codicil, executed on February 23, 1937, the testator...

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