Hartsfield v. Lescher

MEMORANDUM OPINION

HENRY WOODS, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

On September 2, 1988, Larry Hartsfield (“Trustee”), Trustee of the George Wright Lescher Trust (“Trust”), filed a pro se complaint in the Cross County, Arkansas Chancery Court seeking a declaration that Ann Madison Jeffords Lescher (“Ms. Lescher”), a/k/a Ann Jeffords Lescher, had no interest in real property located in Cross County, Arkansas and held in trust by the Trustee for the benefit of Ms. Lescher’s ex-husband, George Hamilton Lescher, 1 and his twin brother, John Perry Lescher. 2 Ms. Lescher later removed the case to federal…