Pastine v. Altman
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action in the nature of ejectment, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County where the defendant Kumpitsch failed to appear and the answer of the defendant Altman, administratrix, was adjudged {Haines, J.) insufficient on demurrer, and upon her failure to plead further judgment was rendered for the plaintiffs, from which the defendant administratrix appealed.
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Action in the nature of ejectment, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County where the defendant Kumpitsch failed to appear and the answer of the defendant Altman, administratrix, was adjudged {Haines, J.) insufficient on demurrer, and upon her failure to plead further judgment was rendered for the plaintiffs, from which the defendant administratrix appealed. The complaint alleged that the plaintiffs were part owners and tenants in common of a certain building in Bridgeport, and that in March, 1915, James Musante, one of the tenants in common of said property, and Mary Pastine Myers,…
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
This is an action of ejectment to recover possession of two floors of a building formerly owned by James Musante and Bartholomew Pastine, and now occupied by the defendant, under a lease of the second and third floors, for an unfinished term of years, executed in March, 1915, by James Musante and the administratrix of the estate of Bartholomew Pastine. The plaintiffs are two minor heirs of Pastine who have never assented to the lease.
Under our statute (§ 5027) an administratrix is entitled to the custody of the real estate pending the settlement of the estate, and since the lease was executed…
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