Morrison v. Lennett

How courts have described this case

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• noting that courts may, in appropriate circumstances, impose liability directly on the beneficiaries of a nominee trust
• defining \nominee trust” as \an entity created for the purpose of holding legal title to property with the trustee[] having only perfunctory duties” (quoting Johnston v. Holiday Inns, Inc., 595 F.2d 890, 893 (1st Cir.1979))
• “A nominee trust is often used to hold legal title to real estate so that the identity of the trust beneficiary may remain undisclosed.”
• applicability of the statutory cap to the trustees of a trust in their representative capacities and individually
• employees of charitable organizations \not entitled to the benefit of the limitation on damages contained in § 85K\
• \there is logic in treating the beneficiaries of a nominee trust as the true owners of the property for the purposes of liability as well as benefit\ [quotation omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).