Kagan v. Moody’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cook v. Smith · Adams v. Abbott · 30 Tex. Civ. App. 615 - Donnan v. Adams · Duncan v. United States Circuit Court of Appeals for Eighth Circuit · 107 Cal. App. 121 - Huntoon v. Southern Trust & Commerce Bank
Most-quoted passages
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“Where a trust is created, but is not contained or declared in the conveyance to the trustee, or when a conveyance or transfer is made to a trustee without disclosing the names of the beneficiary, or beneficiaries, the trustee shall be held to have the power to convey or transfer or encumber the title and whenever he shall execute and deliver a conveyance or transfer or encumbrance of such property, as trustee, such conveyance or transfer or encumbrance shall not thereafter be questioned by any one claiming as a beneficiary under such trust or by any one claiming by, through, or under an undisclosed beneficiary ... (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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