Pillsbury v. Karmgard

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a beneficiary did not have standing to sue unless beneficiary showed that trustee's refusal to bring lawsuit against third party was negligent or improper
• “At common law, where a cause of action is prosecuted on behalf of an express trust, the trustee is the real party in interest because the trustee has legal title to the cause.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).