Memorial Park v. Vaughn

CORN, V. C. J.

This is an action by Lolita May Vaughn, nee Murdock, Cathleen C. Murdock, and John Thurman Murdock against Memorial Park, an express trust, and Frank Frantz, T. H. Steffens, and Tom D. Durham, trustees, to recover the value of stock or units in said express trust. Judgment was for the plaintiffs, and defendants appealed. For convenience we continue to refer to the parties herein as they appeared in the trial court.

Memorial Park, a trust estate, was created by a written declaration of trust on April 21, 1927, by C. W. Beck, to engage in the cemetery business in Tulsa, Okla. H. D.…