Legal Opinion

Sullivan v. Applebaum

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided February 1, 1911No. Docket No. 55PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from Genesee; Wisner, J. Bill by Thomas G. Sullivan and Timothy E. Tarsney against Isaac Applebaum, the Saginaw & Flint Railway, the Valley Engineering Company, Edwin Henderson, Alexander J. Groesbeck, William I. L. Stearns, the Detroit Trust Company, trustee, Nelson A. Tabor and Mark Mitshkun, to enforce an alleged parol trust. Charlotte M. Tarsney, administratrix of the estate of Timothy E..

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Appeal from Genesee; Wisner, J. Bill by Thomas G. Sullivan and Timothy E. Tarsney against Isaac Applebaum, the Saginaw & Flint Railway, the Valley Engineering Company, Edwin Henderson, Alexander J. Groesbeck, William I. L. Stearns, the Detroit Trust Company, trustee, Nelson A. Tabor and Mark Mitshkun, to enforce an alleged parol trust. Charlotte M. Tarsney, administratrix of the estate of Timothy E.. Tarsney, was substituted as complainant on the decease of said Timothy E. Tarsney. From a decree dismissing the bill complainants appeal.

1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.

The bill of complaint in this cause was filed • for the purpose of establishing an alleged parol trust in favor of complainant Sullivan, and Timothy E. Tarsney, now deceased (hereinafter called complainants), as against defendant Isaac Applebaum primarily; and the other defendants (aside from the Detroit Trust Company) were impleaded, under the claim that they had invested their money in the purchase and construction of an electric railway from Saginaw to Flint, with knowledge of the terms of what is claimed to be defendant Applebaum’s trust agreement that he should purchase for the benefit…

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  1. Prather Engineering Co. v. Genesee Circuit JudgeMichigan Supreme Court · 1907

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  1. Haney v. Allegan Circuit JudgeMichigan Supreme Court · 1911

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