Spinner v. Nutt

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “an allegation that the trastee acted under the legal advice of the defendant, without more, is insufficient”
• holding that a trustee’s attorney did not owe a duty to the trust beneficiaries where conflicting loyalties could impermissibly interfere with the attorney’s task of advising the trustee
• determining that an attorney is not liable to a third party beneficiary for giving negligent advice, without more
• determining that an attorney is not liable to a third party beneficiary for giving negligent advice, without more
• noting that trust beneficiaries could sue the trustees, and the trustees in turn could bring an action against their attorneys, but beneficiaries could not directly sue trustees’ attorneys
• noting that trust beneficiaries could sue the trustees, and the trustees in turn could bring an action against their attorneys, but beneficiaries could not directly sue trustees' attorneys

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).