VanStone v. VanStone

This is an appeal by plaintiffs from a judgment entered by the Common Pleas Court on the motion of defendant Beatrice VanStone to strike from the files the petition of plaintiffs and entering judgment for defendants upon the ground that the court did not have jurisdiction of the subject matter of the action. From that judgment, plaintiffs appealed to this court on questions of law.

The petition contains two causes of action, and the relief sought is that a trust be imposed on certain personal and real property described therein by virtue of the terms and provisions of the wills of the…