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CONNECTICUT JUNIOR REPUBLIC v. SHARON HOSPITAL

188 Conn. 1 (1982)

CONNECTICUT JUNIOR REPUBLIC ET AL. v. SHARON HOSPITAL ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released August 10, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Barnett, with whom was Patrick M. Noonan, for the appellants (plaintiffs).

Albert Zakarian, with whom were Jon E. Hayden, and, on the brief, Raymond B. Green, for the appellees (defendant Springfield Hospital et al.).

Samuel R. Dorrance, for the appellee (defendant American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals).

PETERS, HEALEY, ARMENTANO, SHEA and SPONZO, JS.

ARTHUR H. HEALEY, J.

The sole issue presented in this case is whether extrinsic evidence of a mistake by a scrivener of a testamentary instrument is admissible in a proceeding to determine the validity of the testamentary instrument. On October 3, 1979, Richards Haskell Emerson, a resident of Lakeville, died at the age of seventy-nine. He had never married and left several cousins as his closest heirs at law. Emerson left a will dated May 19, 1960, and two codicils...

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