Supreme Court of Connecticut April 30, 1996, 15234 (Starr v. Commissioner of Environmental Protection)

KATZ, J.

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether the plaintiff, Susan S. Starr, acquired a polluted 44.3 acre parcel of land by inheritance, thereby making her an innocent landowner pursuant to General Statutes § 22a-452d.

The following facts and procedural history are undisputed. On February 23, 1976, the plaintiffs husband, S.