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· 3/27/1922

Williams v. Scudder

Citations

  • 258 U.S. 607
  • 42 S. Ct. 316
  • 66 L. Ed. 787
  • 1922 U.S. LEXIS 2314

How courts have described this case

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  • confirming that a trustee has a duty to keep trust property separate from the trustee’s own assets but that upon a breach of that obligation a recovery could still be had by a beneficiary if property could be traced
  • “Blue Cross could not unilaterally alter the requirement that the corpus of the trust be returned at the end of the trust period.”

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