Connecticut Bank & Trust Co. v. Coffin

Both of these appeals arise from a declaratory judgment action brought by the plaintiff bank as a trustee to determine which of the defendants are the “issue” of Dexter D. Coffin, Jr., and thus beneficiaries of an inter vivos trust created by his father, Dexter D. Coffin, and of testamentary trusts created by both his parents.

In Connecticut Bank & Trust Co. v. Coffin, 212 Conn. 678, 563 A.2d 1323 (1989), (Coffin I), this court found no error in the trial court’s construction of the trust indenture executed by Dexter D. Coffin on April 30, 1957, to exclude as beneficiaries of the trust any…