DOOLEY v. JAMES DOOLEY ASSOCIATES

No. 55760.

92 Ill.2d 476 (1982)

442 N.E.2d 222

VIRGINIA ANN DOOLEY, Appellee, v. JAMES A. DOOLEY ASSOCIATES EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT PLAN et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied November 24, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Harte, of William J. Harte, Ltd., and Myron M. Cherry and Peter Flynn, of Cherry & Flynn, P.C., all of Chicago, for appellants Mary Connelly, Michael Connelly, John D. Connelly, and Lorraine Jensen Grau.

Clare J. Murphy, of Winnetka, and Sidney Z. Karasik, of Chicago, for appellant Herbert Jackson.

Barnabas F. Sears and Wayland B. Cedarquist (Boodell, Sears, Sugrue, Giambalvo & Crowley, of Chicago, of counsel), for appellee.


Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE UNDERWOOD delivered the opinion of the court:

This is a contest between claimants to the retirement trust account of the late Justice James A. Dooley (decedent), a former member of this court, who had established the account while engaged in the active practice of law. Decedent had designated plaintiff, Virginia Ann Dooley, his daughter, as the sole beneficiary of that account in December...

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