CONNECTICUT NATIONAL BANK & TRUST CO. v. CHADWICK

(14035), (14036)

217 Conn. 260 (1991)

CONNECTICUT NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY v. DONALD W. CHADWICK ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released January 22, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph G. Elliot, with whom, on the brief, was William F. L. Rodgers, for the appellants in the first appeal, appellees in the second appeal (defendant Heather Webb Fickes Foote et al.).

Wesley W. Horton, with whom was Kimberly A. Knox, for the appellants in the second appeal, appellees in the first appeal (named defendant et al.).

Thomas J. Groark, Jr., with whom were Hyacinth Douglas-Bailey and, on the brief, Michael W. Elsass and Ruth A. Kurien, for the appellees in both appeals (defendant Donald G. Fickes et al.).

CALLAHAN, GLASS, HULL, BORDEN and F. X. HENNESSY, JS.


HULL, J.

The dispositive issue in these consolidated appeals is whether the adopted grandchildren of Edwin Stanton Fickes, the testator, are included within the term "grandchildren" as used in the testator's will and, therefore, beneficiaries of a trust created by the will. The trial court found that Donald G. Fickes and Jackson W. Fickes (adopted grandsons), twin boys adopted by the testator's son, Charles Fickes, before...

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