Bolles v. Toledo Trust Co.

Our question: Whether, by the device of a revocable living trust, a husband relinquishes such dominion over the personal property in such, trust as will bar his widow’s right to a distributive share of such personal property upon her election to take under the statute of descent and distribution.

It is the claim of appellant, Clara C. Bolles, that her husband and The Toledo Trust Company, by means of two trust agreements (Nos. 331 and 520), attempted to deprive her of her statutory rights as widow to elect to take one-third of the property involved in those trusts. It is the claim of the widow…