Barham v. McGraw

Opinion

BRIAN QUINN, Chief Justice.

Blood may be thicker than water, but money beats everything. 1

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house. 2 .

Before us lies a dispute between brother and sister regarding the division of their deceased father’s real estate. When their father died, the realty in question became the corpus of a trust to benefit his widow, Margie, the trust’s trustee. Upon her death, the property remaining in it was to be distributed to the trustor’s “descendants.” Bobby Barham and Patricia Ann McGraw, his children, were two such descendants.

Being trustee, Margie had the…