SOUTHPORT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH v. HADLEY

Nos. 35289, 36395.

98 A.3d 99 (2014)

152 Conn.App. 282

SOUTHPORT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH — UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST v. Betty Ann HADLEY, Coexecutor (Estate of Albert L. Hadley), et al.

Appellate Court of Connecticut.

Decided August 19, 2014.

Argued May 28, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Farnsworth , New Haven, for the appellant in both appeals (plaintiff).

Daniel J. Krisch , with whom was Jeffrey F. Gostyla , Hartford, for the appellee in both appeals (defendant Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art).

Grant P. Haskell , Westport, for the appellees in both appeals (named defendant et al.).

James Hogan Love , Fairfield, filed a brief for the appellee in AC 35289 (named defendant).

LAVINE, SHELDON and BISHOP, Js.


SHELDON, J.

In these appeals involving a disputed application of the doctrine of equitable conversion, the central question is whether certain real property automatically passed to the specific devisee of the property under a will upon the death of the decedent when, prior to the decedent's death, he had entered into a contract to sell the property to a third party. The decedent, Albert L. Hadley, in his last will and testament, specifically devised a residential...

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