Conant v. Lansden

Under the will of Oscar Tamm, who died in 1913, a trust was set up for the principal purpose of constructing and maintaining good roads in Alexander County. Three trustees were appointed, one of whom was David Lansden, apparently the active and directing officer of the trust. In 1938, one of the other trustees died, and plaintiff Edward Conant was appointed successor trustee in his place. In 1944, after the death of David Lansden, the circuit court, on the petition of three taxpayers of the county, appointed the other two plaintiffs as successor trustees to fill the vacancies then existing.…