Digney v. Blanchard
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on April 27, 1915, and afterwards amended, in the name of the trustees under a declaration of trust for an unincorporated association called the Associated Trust against a former trustee to recover losses resulting from certain alleged breaches of trust. The defendants demurred to the amended bill.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on April 27, 1915, and afterwards amended, in the name of the trustees under a declaration of trust for an unincorporated association called the Associated Trust against a former trustee to recover losses resulting from certain alleged breaches of trust. The defendants demurred to the amended bill. The demurrer was heard by Braley, J., by whose order an interlocutory decree was made overruling the demurrer, from which the defendants appealed. The suit afterwards was referred to a master and was reported by De Courcy, J., for determination by…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
The bill as amended is brought by the receiver in the name of the trustees of the Associated Trust, an unincorporated association existing under a declaration of trust, to recover for losses resulting from three alleged breaches of trust by Blanchard, the original trustee, hereinafter called the defendant. The defendants’ demurrer and exceptions to the master’s report raise the issues of the validity of these transactions.
1. The first alleged breach of trust is the agreement made by Blanchard, as trustee, to erect and complete certain buildings on lands of one Schulze, in which land and…
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