MERCANTILE TRUST CO., N.A. v. HARDIE

No. 23485.

39 S.W.3d 907 (2001)

MERCANTILE TRUST COMPANY, N.A., Successor Trustee of the Robert S. Hardie Revocable Trust, Dated 11/29/90, as Amended, Petitioner-Respondent, v. Katherine Ann HARDIE, Matthew Robert Hardie, Ian (Krekel) Hardie, and Matthew Robert Hardie, Administrator of the Estate of Michael Gay Hardie, Respondents-Respondents, and Columbia University School of Law and St. Catharine's Society at St. Catharine's College, Respondents-Appellants.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Division One.

March 30, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Penninger, Blackwell, Sanders, Peper Martin LLP, Springfield, Attorney for Appellants.

Clifford S. Brown, Carnahan, Evans, Cantwell & Brown, Springfield, and Rodney H. Nichols, Attorneys for Katherine Ann Hardie, Matthew Robert Hardie, Ian (Krekel) Hardie, and Matthew Robert Hardie, Administrator of the Estate of Michael Gay Hardie, Respondents.


Shrum, Judge.

Columbia University School of Law and St. Catharine's College ("Appellants") appeal the summary judgment entered against them by the circuit court of Greene County, Missouri (probate division). The court adjudged that the principal of an express trust established for Michael Gay Hardie ("Michael") by Robert S. Hardie ("Grantor") should be distributed to the administrator of Michael's estate, not to Appellants as residuary beneficiaries under Grantor...

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