Estate of Downs v. Bugg

• Decision Date: 28 May 2002
• Docket Number: No. WD 60222.,WD 60222.
• Citation: 75 S.W.3d 853
• Parties: In the ESTATE OF Laura DOWNS, Inc. Dis., James Rutter, Conservator, Respondent, v. Eldon BUGG, Appellant.
• Court: Missouri Court of Appeals

75 S.W.3d 853

In the ESTATE OF Laura DOWNS, Inc. Dis., James Rutter, Conservator, Respondent, v.Eldon BUGG, Appellant.

No. WD 60222.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.

May 28, 2002.

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Boone County; Missouri, Ellen S. Roper, Judge.

Eldon Bugg, Columbia, pro se.

Jean S. Goldstein, Columbia, MO, for respondent.

Before LOWENSTEIN, P.J., NEWTON and HOLLIGER, JJ.

ORDER

PER CURIAM.

AppellantEldon Bugg, is the defendant in the underlying discovery of assets claim brought by the Boone County Public Administrator, as conservator and guardian for a woman who had created a revocable living trust in her name.The woman and the appellant were co-trustees of the trust.The subject of the appeal is whether the probate court erred in granting summary judgment to the conservator on the basis that a $42,000 obligation, which was purportedly an asset in the trust, was improperly transferred into a trust in which the appellant is a co-trustee and beneficiary.

Affirmed.Rule 84.16(b).