Finch v. Reese

This is an appeal from a decree of the Probate Court for the district of Hartford, which accepted and approved an account of the plaintiff and denied an application for the ascertainment of distributees and an order for distribution. The plaintiff represents that he and the Bank of New York are cotrustees of a testamentary trust created by a New Jersey testatrix, Mrs. Mabel Jackson, who, at the date of her death, owned real property in the probate district of Hartford. The Essex County Surrogate’s Court of New Jersey issued letters of trusteeship to them, and the Probate Court for the…