CONNECTICUT BANK & TRUST CO. v. HURLBUTT


157 Conn. 315 (1968)

CONNECTICUT BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, TRUSTEE (ESTATE OF FRANK R. HURLBUTT) v. FRANK R. HURLBUTT, JR., ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided December 23, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul W. Orth, for the appellant (defendant Mable W. Hurlbutt).

Charles W. Page, with whom, on the brief, was Ralph C. Dixon, for the appellees (named defendant et al.).

Henry S. Robinson, Jr., appeared for the appellee (plaintiff).

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


KING, C. J.

On August 7, 1930, Frank R. Hurlbutt, then of Charleston, West Virginia, as settlor, established an irrevocable inter vivos trust, of which the plaintiff bank is the trustee. The terms of the trust, in simplified form, material to the present controversy, were that the law of Connecticut should govern the validity and interpretation of the trust instrument; that the settlor should receive the net income for his...

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