Chapman v. Chapman

This is an appeal from a decree dismissing the petition of the interveners, wherein the plaintiff, Benjamin G. Chapman Jr., as trustee of a trust created by a will of William R. Pye had instituted a suit in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, against Louisa H. Chapman; himself, in his capacity as executor of the estate of Fannie H. Higbee and the Bethesda, a corporation. The plaintiff in this petition sought a decree approving an accounting and ordering his discharge as trustee of the trust estate created by this will. Such a decree had been entered but was set aside on…