MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST CO. v. HUNTINGTON


149 Conn. 331 (1962)

MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK ET AL., EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEES (ESTATE OF ARCHER M. HUNTINGTON) v. ANNA H. HUNTINGTON ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided March 16, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wendell Davis, with whom were Edward J. Butler and Thomas L. Cheney, for the plaintiffs.

David Goldstein, with whom were Irving J. Alter and, on the brief, Robert Fain, for the defendants Anna H. Huntington et al., Trustees of the Hispanic Society of America.

John W. Barnett, for the defendants City Trust Company et al.; with him were Howard J. Maxwell and W. Harmon Leete, for the defendant State-Planters Bank of Commerce and Trusts, and Henry S. Robinson, Jr., for the defendants Hartford National Bank and Trust Company et al.

A. Searle Pinney, with whom, on the brief, was Burton F. Sherwood, guardian ad litem, for the defendants John B. Warnken et al.

Norman K. Parsells, with whom was Peter Wilkinson, for the defendants National Academy of Design et al.

G. Campbell Becket, for the named defendant.

KING, MURPHY, SHEA, ALCORN and HOUSE, JS.


KING, J.

Basically, this is an action for the construction of the will of Archer M. Huntington of Redding, Connecticut, who died December 11, 1955. The plaintiffs are the executors and trustees under the will, which was dated February 24, 1941, and admitted to probate in Redding on December 20, 1955. Certain questions propounded in the action have been reserved for determination by us. The testator left no issue, but his...

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