Legal Opinion
Dessar v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 22, 1965No. 19430PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUNIWAY, Circuit Judge:
This is a diversity case in which appellant, plaintiff in the trial court, seeks to have it determined that a trust agreement, executed on November 8, 1933, is, as a -matter of law, invalid as a trust. The theory is that the trustee (appellee) was a mere agent during the lifetime of the trustor, and that therefore provisions dealing with disposition of the trust property upon the death of the trustor are invalid because the instrument was not executed in the manner required by the California Probate Code for the execution of a will. (Cal.Probate Code, § 50) The trial…
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