Royal v. Blackwell

BENHAM, Justice.

In January 2009, appellee Fred B. Blackwell, the trustee of a testamentary trust that is a beneficiary of the last will and testament of the late Edgar Hollis of Coweta County, filed this action in which he sought an accounting, the removal of appellant Mayo H. Royal, Jr., as executor of the estate, and damages resulting from Royal’s purported breach of his fiduciary duty. Following the executor’s resignation in May 2009 from the post he had held since August 2006, the Probate Court of Coweta County appointed appellee W Robert Hancock, Jr., as temporary administrator of the…