Pieper v. Renke

In this action, brought by plaintiff mother against defendant daughter, for an accounting and incidental relief, the trial court found that the mother had turned over to her daughter funds in excess of $12,000, that they were paid in trust, in confidence and for a specific purpose and that the daughter willfully converted and dissipated such funds to her own use. By so doing, she of course violated the fiduciary obligation and duty imposed upon her. Although the trial court was itself able to compute the amount of money to which the mother was entitled, and found it unnecessary to order the…