HOWARD v. BATCHELDER


143 Conn. 328 (1956)

ERNEST E. HOWARD, TRUSTEE (ESTATE OF ARTHUR F. HOWARD) [JAMES J. DUTTON, TRUSTEE, SUBSTITUTED PLAINTIFF] v. JAMES H. BATCHELDER ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided April 18, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gordon P. Chambers, with whom was Arthur W. Chambers, for the defendants Arthur D. Howard et al.

Charles V. James, for the named defendant et al.

George H. Strouse, Jr., for the defendant George H. Strouse, Jr., executor.

Frank S. Bergin appeared for the plaintiff.

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


O'SULLIVAN, J.

The testator, Arthur F. Howard, died at Norwich on October 3, 1924, at the age of seventy. He left surviving, as his only heirs at law, his wife, Lina, then fifty-seven years old, and an unmarried daughter, Lucille, then twenty-seven. Lucille married James H. Batchelder in 1941. In 1945 she died, at the age of forty-eight, intestate and without issue, leaving as her heirs at law her mother and her husband. Lina, whom the testator had married in 1890...

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