FIRST NEW HAVEN NATIONAL BANK v. FIRST NEW HAVEN NATIONAL BANK


153 Conn. 490 (1966)

THE FIRST NEW HAVEN NATIONAL BANK, EXECUTOR (ESTATE OF LUCIA T. CLARK), ET AL. v. THE FIRST NEW HAVEN NATIONAL BANK, TRUSTEE (ESTATE OF ELLEN L. CLARK), ET AL. HENRY C. DEMING ET AL. v. THE FIRST NEW HAVEN NATIONAL BANK, TRUSTEE (ESTATE OF ELLEN L. CLARK) MARJORY L. JENKINS ET AL. v. THE FIRST NEW HAVEN NATIONAL BANK, TRUSTEE (ESTATE OF ELLEN L. CLARK), ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided March 1, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence J. Matzkin and John W. Barnett, with whom were Charles C. Kingsley and Perry Graicerstein, for the appellants (plaintiffs in the second and third cases).

Curtiss K. Thompson, with whom was H. Chandler Clark, for the appellant (plaintiff Moulton in the first case); with him also was Arthur W. Chambers, for the appellant (named plaintiff in the first case).

Robert J. Engelman, with whom was Max H. Schwartz, for the appellee (defendant Bessie G. Tester, administratrix, in the first and third cases).

Charles J. Parker, for the appellee (named defendant) in each case.

KING, C. J., MURPHY, ALCORN, SHANNON and HOUSE, JS.


ALCORN, J.

Ellen L. Clark of New Haven died on January 9, 1937, at the age of seventy-five. She left a will which she had made on September 12, 1925. On that date her closest living relatives were her married daughter, Lucia T. Meyer, age twenty-nine ; her sisters, Anna F. Tester, age fifty-six, and Helen F. Treat, age fifty-four; and a stepmother, Julia A. Treat, age eighty-one. Her will, after providing for the payment...

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