MORRIS v. TRUST CO. OF THE OZARKS

No. SD 32794.

423 S.W.3d 918 (2014)

Deborah K. MORRIS, Personal Representative of the Estate of Steven W. Groves, Deceased, Appellant, v. TRUST COMPANY OF THE OZARKS, as Trustee of the William and Kathryn Groves Trust Under Agreement dated July 2, 1991, as amended, Maurice Houghton, Martha Rains, Louise Zook, Evangeline Skelton, John Jack Munsey, Park University, and Fitchburg State College, Respondents.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Division One.

March 11, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard T. Ashe and Clifford S. Brown , Springfield, for Appellant.

Warren E. Harris and Lance Roskens , Springfield, for Respondents.


DANIEL E. SCOTT, J.

Alleging that a grantor trust had terminated by operation of law more than three years earlier, a personal representative sought to obtain the trust corpus through litigation. The successor trustee asserted limitations as a bar, an issue that the trial court did not reach in denying relief on the merits.

This court can affirm that judgment "on any basis supported by the record," Howard Const. Co. v. Bentley Trucking, Inc.,

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