COMMERCE TRUST COMPANY v. FAST

No. 51402.

396 S.W.2d 683 (1965)

COMMERCE TRUST COMPANY, a corporation, et al., Respondents, v. William Kirk FAST et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

December 13, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stinson, Mag, Thomson, McEvers & Fizzell, Donald H. Chisholm, Kansas City, for respondent Jane Poindexter Fast.

Dietrich, Tyler, Davis, Burrell & Dicus, Clarence H. Dicus, Kansas City, for respondent William Kellar Poindexter.

Lowell L. Knipmeyer, Kansas City, for respondent Henry Pratt Poindexter.

Watson, Ess, Marshall & Enggas, Vernon B. Kassebaum, Marvin C. Hayward, Clayton R. Smalley, Kansas City, King, Robin, Gale & Pillinger, Willard L. King, George W. Gale, Chicago, Ill., for respondent Mary Elizabeth Silverstein.

Warren E. Slagle, Kansas City, Guardian Ad Litem for minor defendants.


HYDE, Presiding Judge.

Declaratory judgment action to construe will of Harry Kellar Poindexter (hereinafter called testator) establishing trusts and for instructions to the trustees. The minor defendants, grandchildren of testator, and their guardian ad litem have appealed from the decree entered. We have jurisdiction because three of the testator's four children seek to require the testamentary trustees to distribute to...

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