Ministers & Missionaries Benefit Board v. Meriden Trust & Safe Deposit Co.

This matter came to the Superior Court as an appeal from probate, taken jointly by the Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board and the attorney general of the state of Connecticut. The order from which the appeal was taken was entered by the Probate Court for the district of Meriden. The challenged part of the order provided that one-half of the residue of the estate of Leland H. Ives, deceased, be distributed to his wife’s estate. With the consent of the parties and upon their stipulation of agreed facts, the Superior Court reserved for our advice the eight questions recited in the…