Opinion ID: 613266
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Heading: Injunctive relief against Tiffany & Bosco

Text: The plaintiffs contend that the district court improperly dismissed the trustee Tiffany & Bosco from this suit under Arizona Revised Statute 33-807(E). Section 33-807(E) provides that a trustee is entitled to be immediately dismissed from any action other than one pertaining to a breach of the trustee's obligations, because the trustee is otherwise bound by an order entered against a beneficiary for actions that the trustee took on its behalf. The only breach that the plaintiffs allege against Tiffany & Bosco is that it failed to recognize that its appointment was invalid. According to the plaintiffs, the appointment was invalid because MERS is a sham beneficiary and lacks power to appoint a trustee. However, a trustee such as Tiffany & Bosco has the absolute right under Arizona law to rely upon any written direction or information furnished to him by the beneficiary. Ariz.Rev.Stat. § 33-820(A). Thus, Tiffany & Bosco did not have an obligation to consider whether its presumptively legal appointment as trustee, which was recorded in the county records, was invalid based on the original designation of MERS as a beneficiary. Accordingly, Tiffany & Bosco was properly dismissed.