Stevens v. Nagel

Karen Stevens Vallier (Karen) and her brother, James L. Stevens (James), filed an action in Superior Court seeking to impose a constructive trust on a portion of the estate of their uncle, Charles Galatis (Charles). The plaintiffs claim that Charles’s estate included money that his wife, their aunt, had wrongfully taken from their father’s estate. A judge of the Superior Court dismissed their complaint for failure to state a claim on which relief could be granted, see Mass.R.Civ.P. *13712(b)(6), 365 Mass. 754 (1974), and the plaintiffs appealed. We reverse.3

The complaint’s allegations, including…