Schapira v. Connecticut Bank & Trust Co.

The sole issue on this appeal is whether an adopted child is entitled to a remainder interest distributable in accordance with the terms of an irrevocable inter vivos trust created in 1919. The plaintiff, *452Ilse Beer Schapira, brought an action for a declaratory judgment to determine whether she, as an adopted child, could take as “issue then living” under a trust agreement providing for distribution upon the death of a life beneficiary.1 The defendants are the Connecticut Bank and Trust Company, which serves as the trustee of the trust, and Milton L. Jacobson, who, as conservator of the estate…