Bennion v. Hansen

ZIMMERMAN, Justice:

This is an appeal from a judgment affirming the disposition of an estate in accordance with an amended trust instrument. The appellants seek reversal on grounds that the trust instrument, which by its terms was irrevocable and unamendable, took effect before it was amended and, therefore, the amendment should have been ignored. We affirm the trial court.

Plaintiffs Layne, David, and Donald Bennion (“the Bennion brothers”) sued Lloyd Hansen and John Van Leeuwen in their capacities as trustees of the Grover A. Hansen Trust, seeking to enforce the terms of a 1972 declaration of…