LOCKETT v. DOYLE


148 Conn. 639 (1961)

FLORENCE M. LOCKETT, EXECUTRIX (ESTATE OF JOHN W. LOCKETT) v. ANNA DOYLE, ADMINISTRATRIX (ESTATE OF WALTER J. DOYLE), ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided August 1, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roman J. Lexton, for the appellants (defendants).

Carlos A. Richardson, for the appellee (plaintiff).

BALDWIN, C. J., KING, MURPHY, SHEA and BERDON, JS.


MURPHY, J.

The plaintiff appealed to the Superior Court from a decree of the Probate Court for the district of Berlin (Gwiazda, J.) in which that court attempted to interpret as a trust agreement a written agreement between the plaintiff's decedent and the defendants' decedents concerning certain shares of stock. The Probate Court held that a trust was created as to those shares and that the plaintiff should transfer...

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