In Re the Administration by Larson

ERICKSTAD, Chief Justice.

This case involves a disagreement between two co-trustees, Franklin G. Larson and Edson G. Larson, as to the manner of dividing farmland held in the Enoch G. Larson and the Julia L. Larson trusts. Franklin and two other trust beneficiaries, Carol Jean Carlisle and Elaine Kievman, petitioned the district court to divide the trust farmland into five separate parcels and to allocate the trust assets, including the divided farmland, to five trust shares, one for each beneficiary. Edson opposed the petition on the ground that the trust settlors intended the trustees to…