Fidelity & Columbia Trust Co. v. Lucas

DAWSON, District Judge.

Milton It. Smith, a resident o f Kentucky, died on February 22, 1921, leaving surviving him a daughter, Mrs. Eva Lee Cooper, and two sons, Sidney Smith and Milton H. Smith, Jr. Plaintiff is executor of his estate. At the time of his death Mr. Smith was president of the Louisville & Kashville Railroad Company, and had held that position for many years, and had long been a man of extensive business affairs. On December 1, 1910, he and his wife executed a deed of trust to the Columbia Trust Company, by which he conveyed to that company, in trust for his children, certain…