Connecticut Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Security Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for the wrongful refusal of the defendant to turn over to the plaintiff a certain sum of money alleged to belong to the estate of the plaintiff’s intestate; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court, Ralph Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is suffciently stated in the opinion.
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Action to recover damages for the wrongful refusal of the defendant to turn over to the plaintiff a certain sum of money alleged to belong to the estate of the plaintiff’s intestate; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the court, Ralph Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is suffciently stated in the opinion. As matter of law Susan Welles had no title to this property in her lifetime, as the absolute title was in her husband as trustee; and as she died…
1Opinion of the CourtFenn, J.
The material facts in this case may be stated briefly. The plaintiff sues as administrator de bonis non of the estate oí Susan M. Welles. The defendant is the administrator of the estate of her husband, Thomas G. Welles. They were married in 1873. She died in 1880 intestate, leaving two children, issue of the marriage. Both have since died, minors, intestate, and unmarried; one before, the other since, their father. Thomas G. Welles died in 1892. During the marriage he received personal property of the wife. He invested it in his own name. The trust fund, so invested, in property mingled with…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Cone v. DunhamSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1890
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- McDonald v. Hartford Trust Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1926
- Cook v. HirschbergCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1958
- Padula v. PadulaSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1951
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