O'BRIEN v. Dwight

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that probate courts have the continuing power to revoke or modify their decrees, but suggesting that such action would only be appropriate in limited circumstances
• court not required to decide question not adequately argued even though specifically reported by judge
• breach of fiduciary duty, although often predicate finding to finding of fraud, is not necessarily coterminous with such finding
• suit by beneficiaries of testamentary trust that owned shares in defrauded corporation
• appointed to represent the interests of named and unnamed minor contingent beneficiaries, guardian ad litem could maintain suit to object to allowance of trustee’s account and otherwise protect beneficiaries’ interests

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).