COMMERCE BANK, N.A. v. BLASDEL

No. WD 61941.

141 S.W.3d 434 (2004)

COMMERCE BANK, N.A., Respondent, v. Robert Hudson BLASDEL, William Phillip Blasdel, and Barbara Blasdel Alexander, Respondents, and Deborah Peck Durland, Patricia Ann Jackson, Glenn C. Willard, James Barry Willard, Janice Lee Borofka, and Ray Burt Willard, Appellants.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, En Banc.

August 24, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian J. Madden, Kansas City, for appellants.

Charles W. German, Kansas City, for respondent Commerce Bank.

Curtis L. Tideman, Overland Park, for respondents Blasdels.

Before JOSEPH M. ELLIS, Chief Judge, HAROLD L. LOWENSTEIN, ROBERT G. ULRICH, PAUL M. SPINDEN, JAMES M. SMART, JR., EDWIN H. SMITH, VICTOR C. HOWARD, THOMAS H. NEWTON, RONALD R. HOLLIGER, LISA WHITE HARDWICK, Judges, and WILLIAM E. TURNAGE, Senior Judge.


JOSEPH M. ELLIS, Judge.

The two adopted adult children of Francis G. Blasdel, Jr. ("the Blasdel adoptees") and the four adopted adult children of Theodore C. Hudson ("the Hudson adoptees") are quarreling with Francis' three natural-born children ("the natural children") over terminating distributions of a very large sum of money from three trusts. After one of the natural children made a demand on the trustee, Commerce...

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