Slattery v. Hartford-Connecticut Trust Co.

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court for the county of Kent, in chancery, vacating an adjudication of adoption of a minor child in the probate court of that county 34 years ago.

Plaintiff herein is 42 years of age, and was nearly seven years of age at the time of adoption. He waited 20 years, after reaching full legal age, before filing the bill and had been fully aware of his adoption for 29 years, the record of which was in the county where he resided. Before plaintiff was born his mother filed a bill against his father for divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty. An answer…