Dibble v. Dibble

Lionel K. Legge, Acting Associate Justice.

In this action, commenced by service of a summons and petition the petitioners, respondents here, sought to be adjudged the owners, in equal shares of a three-fourths beneficial interest in two parcels of land in Orangeburg County that had been conveyed by their uncle, Samuel Dibble, who was also their stepfather, to the respondent Wortham W. Dibble as trustee for their brother, the appellant Thomas W. Dibble. The petition further prayed termination of the trust and accounting and distribution to the petitioners of their alleged interests in the trust…