Mid-West Management Trust v. Stillman Land Co.

MONTGOMERY, Judge.

In this court-tried case, Nancy Stillman, as Successor Trustee of the Mid-West Management Trust (Plaintiff), appeals from a judgment in favor of Defendant Stillman Land Company (SLC), a Missouri corporation.

*369Plaintiff pled and tried the ease on a theory of express contract. The meager facts adduced at trial1 reveal that James Stillman (the now deceased husband of Plaintiff), as Trustee of the Mid-West Management Trust, borrowed a total of $272,528 from the First Midwest Bank of Poplar Bluff in two separate transactions in 1991. James Stillman executed two promissory notes…