McKenzie v. . Sumner’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 1968
5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
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“As to the real estate devised to the defendant for the *Page 819 benefit of the plaintiff, there is no reason why the legal title is not vested in the plaintiff by the statute of uses, as the land is not conveyed to her `sole and separate use,' nor is the trustee charged in any manner whatever with any special duties with respect to the same. . . . The statute, however, does not apply to personal property, such as notes and bank stock, and the legal title remains in the trustee until it is in some way transferred to the equitable owner. Is there any reason why the court, exercising its equitable jurisdiction, should not have directed the assignment of the legal title in this instance? We can see none. The plaintiff being the absolute, equitable owner, there are no ulterior limitations to be protected and, under the terms of the will, the trustee has nothing but a bare, naked legal estate, unaccompanied, as we have remarked, with a single specified duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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