Lockett v. Doyle

The plaintiff appealed to the Superior Court from a decree of the Probate Court for the district of Berlin (Gwiasda, J.) in which that court attempted to interpret as a trust agreement a written agreement between the plaintiff’s decedent and the defendants’ decedents concerning certain shares of stock. The Probate Court held that a trust was created as to those shares and that the plaintiff should transfer them to the defendants. The plaintiff in her reasons of appeal attacked the power and jurisdiction of the Prohate Court to assume to do what it did and the construction made by it of the…