5 App. D.C. 552 - May v. May’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “As we have stated, we will not enter into any investigation of the causes of dissension between the parties, or of the reasonableness or unreasonableness of their respective positions. That there is dissension, bitter and' uncompromising, is beyond question. That such dissension precludes intercourse between the parties, is their mutual declaration. If there can be no intercourse-between them,, no communication of views, their joint execution of their joint trust is an impossibility. The due execution of the trust requires concurrence of action, and consultation preliminary to action.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. May v. May

2. “The power to remove their trustee was vested in the defendants to this cause. The power to determine when there was good and sufficient cause for such removal was necessarily in them also, subject to the restraining power of a court of equity against the abuse of it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. May v. May