Saporita v. Litner

This is an action in contract for compensation for services allegedly rendered by the plaintiff to the defendant’s testator over the period of eighteen years prior to the testator’s death in 1963. Judgment was entered for the plaintiff in the amount of $74,921.18. The case is before us on three bills of exceptions filed by the defendant. The basic issue raised by the exceptions is whether the court acquired and properly exercised personal jurisdiction over the defendant as executor under the testator’s will in light of the undisputed fact that he held his appointment by order of a Connecticut…