In re Estate of Baltic

Colleen Conway Cooney, Judge.

{¶ 1} Defendant-appellant, William Barnett, executor of the estate of Bernard Baltic, appeals the probate court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs-appellees Reason Foundation, Mackinac Center for Public Policy, and International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (“appellees”). We find no merit to the appeal and affirm.

{¶ 2} On March 10, 2008, approximately two weeks before he died, Bernard Baltic executed a last will and testament specifically bequeathing his entire estate to the Bernard Baltic Revocable Trust (“trust”). After…