Legal Opinion

Pike v. Camden Trust Co.

New Jersey Court of Chancery

Decided August 20, 1940PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

By this bill complainants ask to have four certain trust investments set aside and replaced by cash. They claim under a deed of trust dated June 3d 1929, of which their testatrix, Letitia J. Baker, was the settlor and of which the Camden Safe Deposit and Trust Company (merged in 1938 with the West Jersey Trust Company to form the defendant company) was the trustee. Relief is sought on the ground that the trustee, by reason of interests said to be in conflict with those of the complainants as beneficiaries of this trust estate, violated established principles of trust administration in making…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Harton's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1938
  2. Buchanan v. BuchananSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1909
  3. First Nat. Bank of Birmingham v. BashamSupreme Court of Alabama · 1939
  4. Rothenberg v. Franklin Washington Trust Co.New Jersey Court of Chancery · 1940
  5. In re the Estate of DalsimerNew York Surrogate's Court · 1936

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Dabney v. Chase Nat. Bank of City of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1952
  2. Fish v. Valley Nat. Bank of PhoenixArizona Supreme Court · 1946
  3. Phelan v. Middle States Oil Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1955
  4. The Pennsylvania Company, C. v. GillmoreNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1948
  5. Downing EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1947

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