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HARTFORD NATIONAL BANK & TRUST CO. v. VONZIEGESAR

154 Conn. 352 (1966)

HARTFORD NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, TRUSTEE (ESTATE OF MARY B. BRAINARD) v. ANNE C. VONZIEGESAR ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided December 21, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis J. McNamara, Jr., with whom were John F. Spindler, and Howard S. Tuthill, for the appellant-appellee (defendant Edgar O. Appleby, executor [estate of Alessandra C. Appleby]).

Palmer S. McGee, Jr., with whom was Charles W. Page, for the appellee-appellant (named defendant).

Arthur L. Shipman, Jr., with whom was David Schwartz, for the appellees (defendant Frances S. Appleby et al.).

John C. Parsons, appeared for the plaintiff.

KING, C. J., ALCORN, HOUSE, THIM and RYAN, JS.

HOUSE, J.

This action was brought by the plaintiff, as successor trustee of an inter vivos trust, seeking an interpretation of the trust instrument so that the proper distributees of a portion of the corpus might be determined. The trust was created on January 22, 1919, by Mary B. Brainard, hereinafter referred to as the settlor. In two clauses at the commencement of the trust instrument, the settlor recited previous gifts to all her children with the exception of...

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