Citizens Fidelity Bank & Trust Co. v. Leake

WILLIAMS, Judge.

A chancellor of the Jefferson Circuit Court found that William Marshall Bullitt exercised undue influence upon his two daughters by inducing them to sign trust agreements naming the Citizens Fidelity Bank & Trust Company as trustee. From a judgment holding the trust agreements null and void ab initio, the Citizens Fidelity Bank & Trust Company has appealed.

Two days before her marriage in 1939, Nora Bullitt Leake executed a trust agreement naming the Citizens Fidelity Bank & Trust Company as trustee. Four or five days before her marriage in June 1942, Barbara Bullitt Christian…