Ramsdell v. Union Trust Co.

The dispositive issue on this appeal is whether a conflict of interest warranted the removal of the defendant, the Union Trust Company, from its position as executor of the plaintiffs’ decedent’s estate. The plaintiffs are beneficiaries under the will of the decedent, Edna M. Swayze. In 1977, the year of Swayze’s death, the plaintiffs petitioned the Probate Court to remove the defendant as executor of Swayze’s estate and to deny approval of the defendant’s inventory of the estate. The court denied the petitions, and the plaintiffs appealed. In 1982, the plaintiffs instituted a third appeal…