JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. v. Longmeyer

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice MINTON.

I. INTRODUCTION.

JP Morgan Chase Bank’s predecessor, Bank One, was trustee of a revocable living trust created by Ollie Skonberg, which provided lifetime income to Skonberg and substantial benefits of the remainder to several charitable and religious institutions at Skonberg’s death. Skonberg revoked that trust and executed a new estate plan that eliminated the charitable and religious institutions as beneficiaries under circumstances raising questions of undue influence; and Bank One so informed the former trust beneficiaries, who sued Skon-berg’s…