Phillips v. Taylor

OPINION

SANDERS, Presiding Judge, Eastern Section.

The Defendant has appealed from a chancery decree finding him liable to the trust estate, of which he was Trustee, for failure to sell real estate, which was the primary corpus of the trust estate, and invest the proceeds in more productive securities, and also holding the Defendant liable for outrageous conduct for not being more responsive to the needs of the beneficiaries of the trust.

Harry Hawkins died testate in Johnson County in 1979. At the time of his death the principal part of his estate was comprised of an undivided interest in seven…