First Trust & Savings Bank v. Costa

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in a declaratory relief action brought by the. respondent First Trust and Savings Bank of Pasadena, as trustee, to secure an adjudication as to whether the appellant, Frank B. Costa, or the respondent Pasadena Historical Society was entitled to conveyance of certain real property held by it as trustee under a trust indenture executed by Elma B. Stuart. From a judgment determining that the respondent Pasadena Historical Society was entitled to the property, appellant Costa has appealed.

In 1937, the property of Mrs. Stuart was conveyed in trust and…