CONNECTICUT BANK & TRUST CO. v. COFFIN

(13645), (13674)

213 Conn. 573 (1990)

CONNECTICUT BANK AND TRUST COMPANY v. DEXTER D. COFFIN, JR., ET AL. CONNECTICUT BANK AND TRUST COMPANY v. DEXTER D. COFFIN IV ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released January 30, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce G. MacDermid, with whom, on the brief, were Richard R. Steinmetez, Robert A. Horowitz, Mark Gregory, Austin J. McGuigan and Joseph B. Burns, for the appellants (defendant Sean Van Schoonmaker Coffin and defendant Neil Elliott et al.).

Elga R. Wasserman, with whom, on the brief, were Jacob D. Zeldes, Frank J. Silvestri, Jr., and David P. Atkins, for the appellees (defendant Martha E. Coffin et al.).

John L. Bonee III, for the appellee (defendant Kathryn Blaire Greenhalgh).

Timothy S. Fisher, with whom was Christopher J. Hug and, on the brief, George C. Hastings and Linda M. Hamel, for the appellee (plaintiff in each case).

Stephen B. Goddard filed a brief for the appellee (defendant Lance Justin Coffin).

PETERS, C. J., HEALEY, SHEA, CALLAHAN and GLASS, JS.


PER CURIAM.

Both of these appeals arise from a declaratory judgment action brought by the plaintiff bank as a trustee to determine which of the defendants are the "issue" of Dexter D. Coffin, Jr., and thus beneficiaries of an inter vivos trust created by his father, Dexter D. Coffin, and of testamentary trusts created by both his parents.

In Connecticut Bank & Trust Co. v. Coffin, 212 Conn. 678, 563 A.2d...

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