Doyle v. Reardon

This is an appeal by the plaintiff Donald H. Doyle, Jr., from the trial court’s granting of the defendant’s motion to dismiss the plaintiffs’ appeal from the Essex Probate Court. The Probate Court had granted the defendant’s motion for permission to institute suit and to employ counsel. Donald H. Doyle, Jr., is the grandson of Lena K. Doyle.1 The defendant is the conservator of the estate of Lena K. Doyle. The motion to dismiss in the Superior Court alleged that the court lacked subject matter jurisdiction because the statutory requirements of General Statutes § 45-288 had not been met.2 The…