Cottrell v. Connecticut Bank & Trust Co.

The plaintiff appealed to the Superior Court from an order of the Probate Court for the district of Stonington approving a third preliminary account of the administration of the estate of Leone B. Cottrell, deceased mother of the plaintiff. The defendant coadministrators filed a plea in abatement alleging that, because a guardian ad litem had been appointed by the Probate Court to represent and protect her interests in connection with the settlement of her mother’s estate and, even prior to this, a conservator had been appointed to manage her own estate, the plaintiff was legally ineapable of…