Looby v. Redmond
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to set aside a conveyance of real estate, and for other equitable relief, brought to the Superior Court in Hew Haven County and referred to a committee, who found and reported the facts; the court, Q-eorge W. Wheeler, J., accepted the report of the committee and rendered judgment in favor of the plaintiff, and the defendants appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
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Suit to set aside a conveyance of real estate, and for other equitable relief, brought to the Superior Court in Hew Haven County and referred to a committee, who found and reported the facts; the court, Q-eorge W. Wheeler, J., accepted the report of the committee and rendered judgment in favor of the plaintiff, and the defendants appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is fully stated in the opinion. The memorandum of decision shows that the learned trial judge, in coming to his decision, substantially ignored those distinctive features of the case at bar which, the…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
The defendants were summoned to appear in court to answer unto Peter Looby “who brings this suit with the advice and consent of his conservator William Looby, Jr.” These words do not make William Looby, Jr., in any proper sense a party to this action. The statute respecting conservators has been somewhat changed in the recent Revisions, and there have been some instances — where a conservator has been in fact appointed over an incapable person —in which suits like the present one have been brought in the name of the conservator, as such. Baker, Conservator, v. Potter, 51 Conn., 78; Nichols,…
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