HENRIQUES v. ROCKEFELLER


148 Conn. 654 (1961)

CHRISTINE C. HENRIQUES ET AL. v. GODFREY S. ROCKEFELLER ET AL., TRUSTEES (ESTATE OF WILLIAM G. ROCKEFELLER), ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided June 27, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Bell, Jr., and John Keogh, Jr., for the appellants (defendant trustees).

Morgan P. Ames, with whom, on the brief, was Robert W. Worley, Jr., for the appellees (plaintiffs).

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


BALDWIN, C. J.

The plaintiffs own homes in Deer Park, a residential development in Greenwich. The land in this development was originally owned by William Rockefeller, who conveyed it in 1908 to his two sons, William G. and Percy A. Rockefeller. William G. Rockefeller died in 1922, and Percy in 1933. They left their respective interests in this real estate in trust, and the trustees are defendants. The development of Deer Park began in 1925 or 1926. The land was divided...

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