SOUTHPORT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH v. HADLEY

No. 19398.

128 A.3d 478 (2016)

320 Conn. 103

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

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided January 5, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

John A. Farnsworth , New Haven, for the appellee (plaintiff).

ROGERS, C.J., and PALMER, ZARELLA, EVELEIGH, McDONALD, ESPINOSA and ROBINSON, Js.


The principal issue in this certified appeal is whether title to real property passed to a buyer at the signing of a contract of sale under the doctrine of equitable conversion, when the seller died prior to the fulfillment or expiration of a mortgage contingency clause in the contract. The decedent in the present case, Albert L. Hadley...

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