Bard's Estate’s Empirical Analysis

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25 state decisions

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1. ““The trustee urges that the life tenants acquiesced in the retention as principal of the proceeds of the subscription rights and the stock dividend, because they failed to object, or to take steps to secure an adjudication of their rights. But there is nothing in the record to support the conclusion of the court below that the life tenants had knowledge of the stock dividend and subscription rights. The trustee did not file an account until 1938, and there is no proof or admission that statements were rendered to the life tenants informing them of these items, or of the circumstances affecting them. Their acceptance of income without objection cannot be regarded as acquiescence in the absence of any evidence that they knew its source, or understood its nature. In Card’s Est. (No. 2), 337 Pa. 82 , where a similar situation was before us, we said (p. 88) : ‘There was no acquiescence on the part of such beneficiaries, because of their insufficient knowledge of the facts concerning the stock dividends listed by the trustee as corpus.’ See also Restatement, Trusts, Sections 216 (2) (b) ; 219, Comment (c).” (Italics supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fownes Trust