Cox v. Cox

REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s order granting plaintiff’s summary judgment motion. We affirm the tri al court’s holding that a contingent remain-derman of a trust may compel an accounting absent a showing of mismanagement or waste.

I. The controversy involves a trust established in 1944 by the will of Arthur Cox, an Iowa City resident. Cox was survived by his wife, Elizabeth, and three children: Louisa, Sarah and Thomas G. A fourth child, Frederick G., predeceased the testator. After bequests of personal property and the homestead in the Cox…