Willats
Willats v. Bosworth
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Richards, J.
This is an action brought to establish a trust in real estate, and to remove the trustee for alleged violations of the terms and duties of his trust. The answer of the defendants admitted the substantial facts attending the creation of the trust, but upon the trial of the cause, and upon this appeal, the defendants there and the appellant here deny the sufficiency of those facts to accomplish the creation of a trust, and assert absolute ownership of the premises in question in the defendant Paul H. Bosworth. The trial court found in favor of the plaintiffs and entered its judgment establishing the trust and removing said Paul H. Bosworth as trustee thereof for culpable misconduct in the management of the trust, and appointing another trustee, and directing the execution of a deed to the premises covered by the trust on the part of said Bosworth to the new trustee. Prom such judgment the defendant Paul H. Bosworth prosecutes this appeal.
The only point urged by the appellant upon this appeal is that of the insufficiency of the evidence to justify the findings and judgment of the trial court.
The facts of the case are these: Virginia W. Bosworth was on and prior to the eighteenth…