Snuggs v. Snuggs

Sears, Presiding Justice.

The appellant, James Snuggs, filed this action against his parents, Louise Snuggs and John Mason Snuggs, Sr., 1 contending that he was entitled to recover funds that were due him under an oral, implied trust allegedly established by his maternal grandfather “to fund the advanced educations” of his four grandchildren. Louise Snuggs moved to dismiss James’s complaint, and in ruling on the motion, the trial court assumed that a trust had been created, and assumed that the allegations of James’s complaint were true. 2 The trial court ruled that James’s action was barred…