Morales v. Field, DeGoff, Huppert & MacGowan

How courts have described this case

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• holding attorney for a trustee and executor liable to beneficiaries of a trust
• trustee’s attorney in reality assumes relationship with beneficiary akin to that between trustee and beneficiary
• defendant law firm held liable to third-party beneficiary of a trust for negligent conduct in connection with its representation of the trustee bank, despite the fact that its conduct did not amount to active participation in a breach of the trust
• defendant law firm held liable to third-party beneficiary of a trust for negligent conduct in connection with its representation of the trustee bank, despite the fact that its conduct did not amount to active participation in a breach of the trust

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).