DINAN v. MARCHAND

No. 25754.

881 A.2d 503 (2005)

91 Conn.App. 492

Althea S. DINAN v. Donat C. MARCHAND, Administrator (Estate of Albert A. Garofalo).

Appellate Court of Connecticut.

Decided September 20, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Albrecht, with whom were Barbara M. Schellenberg and, on the brief, Courtney A. George, Bridgeport, for the appellant (plaintiff).

Joyce H. Young, with whom, on the brief, were W.I. Haslun II, Greenwich, and Stephen G. Walko, for the appellee (defendant).

SCHALLER, McLACHLAN and PETERS, Js.


McLACHLAN, J.

The primary issue in this appeal from probate concerns the admissibility of testimony recounting the specific wording of threats allegedly made to the testator in the days before he executed a codicil to his will. The plaintiff, Althea S. Dinan, alleged that the testator, her husband Albert A. Garofalo, was under the undue influence1 of his daughter, Anne Patten, when he executed a codicil to his will in anticipation of his...

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