Wayne Richardson, III v. Robert H. Klaesson and Donna S. Klaesson, Individually and as Trustees of the Klaesson Family Trust

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• explaining that, at common law, a trust estate “was not a juridical entity … and the trustee, qua trustee, was not a juristic person.”
• noting that “the usual rule, absent a statute, is that a trust is not liable for the torts of its trustees, even torts committed in the course of the trust’s administration.”

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