Legal Opinion
Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 96,607 Sue Ellen Baker James v. Gerber Products Company
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 21, 1978No. 76-2483PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN W. PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff was one of three remaindermen beneficiaries of two testamentary trusts, the Helen Gerber Trust and the Cornelius McCarty Trust, that were administered by the Old State Bank of Fremont (Bank), a Michigan corporation. Various initial inventories of the trusts revealed that substantial portions of the trusts’ assets consisted of stock of the Gerber Products Company (Gerber). With the avowed purpose of diversifying these assets, the trust committee of the Bank authorized the sales of a total of 15,000 shares of the Gerber stock in 1966 and 1968. On…
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