DAVIS v. NEILSON

No. WD 47428.

871 S.W.2d 35 (1993)

Bruce E. DAVIS, Trustee of the Marie J. Giffey Testamentary Trust, Plaintiff, v. Jennifer NEILSON and Brian Neilson, Appellants, and Nancy Joan Byrne, Harry Alan Byrne, Peter Brydon Myers, Carol Burton Myers, III, Alan James Bahan, and Jesse Irwin Gillespie, III, Respondents.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied February 1, 1994.

Application to Transfer Denied March 22, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Lee Hubbard, Kansas City, for appellants.

Dan Sanders, Kansas City, for respondents.

Before SPINDEN, P.J., and FENNER and HANNA, JJ.


Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied February 1, 1994.

SPINDEN, Presiding Judge.

At issue in this case is whether six adults adopted by Robert Davis Neilson as his children—his secretary and her son, his nephew, and three friends—should be included with Neilson's two natural children in a class of beneficiaries who receive a trust estate. The trust provided that Neilson was to benefit from the estate until he reached age...

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