Dunlap Investors Ltd. v. Hogan

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• owner of equitable title “not the legal owner of the property because its interest was not of record” but the “hold[er of[ all other rights”
• “[a]bsent an agreement to the contrary” in trust document, beneficiary retains power of encumbrance and alienation of res
• “[a]bsent an agreement to the contrary” in trust document, beneficiary retains power of encumbrance and alienation of res
• owner of equitable title “not the legal owner of the property because its interest was not of record” but the “hold[er of] all other rights”
• “While no particular words are necessary for the grant of an easement, the instrument must identify with reasonable certainty the easement created and the dominant and servient tenements”
• “[E]quitable title ... constitutes a vested interest in the property itself____”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).