Legal Opinion

Bartlett v. Betlach

Court of Appeals of Washington

Decided November 16, 2006No. 23995-1-IIIPublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

¶1 This is a dispute over discharge of a trustee and enforcement of an agreement by the trust to sell real estate, despite the absence of a legal description in either the offer or acceptance. We affirm the trial court’s decision to reinstate the trustee because the beneficiaries failed to show cause for her discharge. But we reverse the court’s decision to specifically enforce the agreement to sell trust real estate because neither the offer nor the acceptance included a legally adequate description of the property required by the statute of frauds.

Sweeney, C.J.

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¶2 Bernadine Betlach…

2Cases cited35 opinions

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