Gardner v. Bernard

EAGER, Presiding Judge.

This appeal involves five different suits, consolidated here for briefing and argument. Each case has its own transcript, but it was stipulated that the evidence in the Kathryn Gardner case would constitute a part of all records. Each suit seeks to enforce an “irrevocable trust account” against the estate of Paul H. Gardner, alleged to have been originally established at $3,000 in 1945, and invested in real estate mortgages. Defendant, in each case, denied the creation of any trust, and pleaded certain other defenses which are not preserved here. The essential issue is…