EVAN O. KOLLER REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST

No. 20160215-CA.

414 P.3d 1099 (2018)

2018 UT App 26

In the MATTER OF the EVAN O. KOLLER REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST. Mark Koller, Appellee, v. Luann K. Shaffer and Kathryn Prounis, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Utah.

Filed February 15, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Robert Smith and Christopher L. Daines , Attorneys for Appellant LuAnn K. Shaffer.

Matthew N. Evans and Matthew M. Cannon , Attorneys for Appellant Kathryn Prounis.

James K. Tracy , Robert S. Tippett , James C. Dunkelberger , and Trevor M. Crowley , Attorneys for Appellee.

Judge David N. Mortensen authored this Opinion, in which Judge Kate A. Toomey concurred. Judge Gregory K. Orme concurred in Sections II and III, and concurred in the result, without opinion, in Section I.


Opinion

¶ 1 Written instruments speak for themselves, and only specific exceptions to that general rule allow a court to look outside a document when interpreting it. The district court ruled that LuAnn K. Shaffer expressly resigned as trustee in writing. Because the district court properly interpreted the relevant...

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