Deladson v. Crawford
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from orders and decrees of the Court of Probate of the district of New Haven approving the account of the defendant, a testamentary trustee, and refusing to require him to turn over to the plaintiff the balance of the funds in the trustee’s hands, taken to and reserved by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Curtis, J., upon an agreed statement of facts, for the advice of this court.
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Appeal from orders and decrees of the Court of Probate of the district of New Haven approving the account of the defendant, a testamentary trustee, and refusing to require him to turn over to the plaintiff the balance of the funds in the trustee’s hands, taken to and reserved by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Curtis, J., upon an agreed statement of facts, for the advice of this court. Another case — Mary F. Cartwright et al. v. George W. Crawford, Trustee — identical in all material respects with this case, — was reserved and argued with it. These are two appeals from decrees of…
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
Although in form appeals from decrees allowing the accounts of the trustee, these appeals are in substance applications to have the trusts terminated, and the first question which suggests itself, is whether the Court of Probate, or the Superior Court sitting as a probate court of appeals, has jurisdiction to terminate testamentary trusts which by the terms of the will have still ten years to run. The jurisdiction of probate courts over testamentary trusts is very limited, exclusively statutory, and largely of recent origin. The history of the statutes on this subject down to 1877 may be…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Cone v. DunhamSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1890
- Chamberlin Appeal from ProbateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1898
- Ackerman v. Union & New Haven Trust Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1915
- Prindle v. HolcombSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1877
- Holmes v. Connecticut Trust & Safe Deposit Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1918
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3Cited by32 opinions
- Greenwich Trust Co. v. TysonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1942
- McDonald v. Hartford Trust Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1926
- Dettenborn v. Hartford-National Bank & Trust Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1936
- Colonial Trust Co. v. BrownSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1926
- Peiter v. DegenringSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1949
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