Phelps v. State Street Trust Co.

How courts have described this case

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• refusing to construe written extension of option as amendment under terms of prior trust agreement expressly giving trustee power to grant options and delineating method of amendment
• “The law of Massachusetts is plain that a valid trust, once created, cannot be revoked or altered except by the exercise of a reserved power to do so . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).