Legal Opinion
Frogate v. Kissell
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided February 6, 1980No. 347-78PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.
Plaintiff appeals from the entry of a judgment denying the enforcement of an alleged oral inter vivos trust. She purported to establish that the trust was created in 1938 by her father, Clarence A. Roberts, and his sister, Ethel Roberts, when they arranged for the purchase of 83 shares of the common stock of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company to be held by their sister, Mildred I. (Roberts) Cowing, during her lifetime, and upon her death to revert to the “Roberts family or the heirs thereof.”
The factual background of the controversy is quite complicated, involving stock splits, the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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3Cited by15 opinions
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