Ayres v. King

LOHR, Justice.

We issued a writ of certiorari to review In Re Estate of Daniels, 643 P.2d 788 (Colo.App.1981), in which the Colorado Court of Appeals held that an inter vivos trust had been created by the decedent, Helen Sloan Daniels, prior to her death and was in effect when she died. The District Court of La Plata County had reached a contrary result after a trial without a jury. Because the evidence supports the trial court’s ruling that the trust never came into being, we reverse the judgment of the court of appeals.

On November 12,1974, Helen Sloan Daniels signed a trust agreement naming…