Legal Opinion
In Re Estate of Stowell
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided July 26, 1991PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GLASSMAN, Justice.
Jane Stowell Mason, Mary Stowell Waitt, and Elizabeth K. Stowell (the beneficiaries) appeal from a judgment of the Cumberland County Probate Court (Childs, J.) accepting a referee’s report that found no breach of fiduciary duty by defendant Rand N. Stowell (Rand) as personal representative of the estate of Newton S. Stowell, II (decedent) or as trustee of decedent’s family trust. 1 The beneficiaries contend that Rand breached his fiduciary duties by loaning estate funds to himself and to a family corporation and that they are entitled to damages and to attorney fees for…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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- Estate of BlouinSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1985
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- Wheeler by and Through Wheeler v. MannUtah Supreme Court · 1988
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3Cited by21 opinions
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