Pennington v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate ·

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1. ““With the sanction of the orphans’ court of Essex county, New Jersey, there was deposited with the Central Trust Company of New York the sum of $88,900, in trust for the benefit of the minor children of George Condit Smith. This was in 1890 and 1891. The balance of the Orossley bond and mortgage — $7,500—is still in the hands of the trustee for the benefit, of the infants, making a total of $96,400. It further appears that the entire trust fund due the infants under the will of their mother, including both real and personal property, was $95,938.43. In other words, the trust estate had already received $1,001.57 more than it was entitled t.o receive under the will creating it. That being so, it is hard to discover any principle of equity which will justify the court in taking $5,000 more from the estate of the deceased trustee, and adding it to the fund of the infants.””

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   e.g. Pennington v. Smith