Johnson v. Thornton

How courts have described this case

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• “In determining this question we are guided by the rule that in construing the provisions of a will the intention of the testator is the primary inquiry of the court.”
• “In a passive trust the legal and equitable titles are merged in the beneficiaries and the beneficial use is converted into legal ownership, but as to an active trust the title remains in the trustee for the purpose of the trust.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).