Trust Under Will of Ashton, A. of: Reed, E. - No. (Granted) (petitions for allowance of appeal)

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA EASTERN DISTRICT TRUST UNDER WILL OF AUGUSTUS T. ASHTON, DECEASED DATED JANUARY 20, 1950 PETITION OF: ELIZABETH A. REED : No. 203 EAL 2020 : : : Petition for Allowance of Appeal : from the Order of the Superior Court : ORDER PER CURIAM AND NOW, this 2nd day of December, 2020, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issue, as stated by petitioner, is: Did the Superior Court err when it held that the equitable property interest in the trust res of a current vested beneficiary does not establish the beneficiary’s automatic standing to raise issues with the Trustees’ breach of fiduciary duties to the Trust, but instead a court must evaluate each and every beneficiary’s individualized financial loss to determine if it meets some unknown threshold sufficient to meet the “substantial, direct and immediate” test?

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