Estrada v. Arizona Bank

OPINION

HOWARD, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from the granting of a summary judgment. In February 1967, when the plaintiff was approximately two and one-half years old, his mother was killed in an automobile accident. A wrongful death action resulted in a settlement which netted plaintiff $99,161.54, which was paid into a trust established by the Cochise County Superior Court on October 18, 1968. This trust was to continue until the plaintiff reached 21 years of age. The trust instrument named the Arizona Bank as the trustee for the plaintiff, the sole beneficiary. The plaintiff’s…