ST. LOUIS UNION TRUST COMPANY v. GROVE

No. 49472.

370 S.W.2d 375 (1963)

ST. LOUIS UNION TRUST COMPANY, A Corporation, and William V. Curran, As Trustees Under a Certain Indenture of Trust of Gertrude Grove, Dated June 15, 1927, Plaintiffs-Respondents, v. James H. GROVE et al., Defendants, James H. Grove and Gertrude Grove Bland, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

September 9, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Coburn, Croft & Cook, Richmond C. Coburn, Gerald M. Smith, St. Louis, for defendants-appellants.

Armstrong, Teasdale, Roos, Kramer & Vaughan, William H. Armstrong, William H. Webster, Edwin S. Baldwin, St. Louis, for respondents.

Paul Brackman, Clayton, guardian ad litem and as atty. for certain respondents Gertrude Bland Platt and Cynthia Bland Gerhard.


WESTHUES, Special Commissioner.

On June 15, 1927, Gertrude Grove, widow of Edwin W. Grove, executed an Indenture of Trust by which she conveyed her share of her husband's estate to trustees for purposes which we shall state later in this opinion. Her husband had died on January 27, 1927.

On June 29, 1957, the trustees, St. Louis Union Trust Company, a corporation, and William V. Curran, a successor trustee, filed a declaratory judgment action seeking a determination...

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