Citizens National Bank v. Kids Hope United

State: Illinois

Docket No: 107787 Rel

Case Date: 12/17/2009

Preview:Docket No. 107787.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS

THE CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK OF PARIS, as Trustee of the La Fern L. Blackman Trust, and as Trustee of the Ettoile Davis Trust, Appellant, v. KIDS HOPE UNITED, INC., an Illinois Not-for-Profit Corporation, Appellee (Lisa Madigan, Attorney General of the State of Illinois, Intervenor-Appellee). Opinion filed December 19, 2009.

JUSTICE FREEMAN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. Chief Justice Fitzgerald and Justices Thomas, Kilbride, Garman, and Burke concurred in the judgment and opinion. Justice Karmeier dissented, with opinion.

OPINION Petitioner Citizens National Bank of Paris (the Bank), as trustee of two charitable trusts that benefitted the Edgar County Children's Home (ECCH), petitioned the circuit court of Edgar County for instructions following the merger of ECCH with a similar charitable entity to form Kids Hope United

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