American Cancer Society, St. Louis Division v. Hammerstein

GUNN, Judge.

Appellants — the trustee of a testamentary trust and the estate of the life beneficiary of the trust — appeal from the trial court’s ruling that an attempted trust termination was void. Respondent, American Cancer Society, is one of several remainder-men named in the trust to benefit from its assets in the event the trust was in existence after the death of the life beneficiary. *860The epicenter of these proceedings around which other issues revolve is a particular trust termination provision and the trial court’s application of an alleged improper standard for overruling the…