Stanton v. Wells Fargo Bank Montana, N.A.

¶1 Respondent Wendell Stanton (Stanton) filed a complaint to compel Wells Fargo Bank, N. A., (Wells Fargo), to distribute the corpus of Frances Scanlan Barker’s (Frances) trust to him. Wells Fargo responded by filing a petition for approval of its final accounting and requested that the District Court determine the beneficiary of Frances’s trust. New Life Fellowship of Montana, d/b/a Trail’s End Ranch (Trail’s End), a previous beneficiary to Frances’s trust, intervened. Trail’s End claimed that Stanton exercised undue influence over Frances and that Wells Fargo breached its fiduciary duty…