Sam Manzo, the Southington caretaker on the old Smoron farm, is still without his inheritance and still living in probate hell.
I stopped by to talk with Manzo on Tuesday because it’s been two years since I first heard about the elaborate scheme that sought to disinherit Manzo and take the broken down old Smoron farm from him.
The place remains a wreck — a ramshackle collection of old machines, broken equipment, wandering cows and other debris – just off the Queen Street exit off busy I-84. With the massive old dairy barn and crumbling farmhouse, the farm is a beautiful, anachronistic mess. Amid the neighboring big box stores, it is a living link to what once was.
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While Malloy jet-sets to Davos and the legislature dreams of new and wasteful ways to spend our tax dollars, Mr. Manzo is still denied his basic contractual rights to own the farm. Brilliant. Anyone who had to navigate the probate system in their lifetime–dealing with estate issues or otherwise–knows how much of a mess it is, and the legislature does nothing to fix it.
Forget high taxes, high cost of living, and the like for a second- CT is the place where your right to property doesn’t matter. Manzo can’t get his farm without the probate system screwing him, and the Kelo case says your property can be taken because development is more valuable than your right to live in a house of your choosing.
And where was the legislature on either of these cases? Apparently not very interested, that’s for sure.
Having read Rick Green’s artical “Probate” column of Feb. 1st, I am once again outraged by Connecticuts total lack of morals in our justice system.
I don’t understand what there is for the superior court judge to sort out.
The property was legally willed to Manzo and a twice centured probate judge and his partner in crime (the unneccessary conservator) tried to STEAL it from him. The problem with our society is there is rarely a penalty for our crimes perpetrated by public officials, so why stop?
There needs to be a cost for this sort of behavior, or it goes on forever.
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