HARRIS TRUST & SAV. BANK v. FIRST NAT. BANK

Gen. No. 46,800.

11 Ill. App.2d 94 (1956)

136 N.E.2d 603

Harris Trust and Savings Bank, as Executor Under Last Will and Testament of Paul C. Boomer, Deceased, Plaintiff, and Rani Pursell, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. First National Bank of Chicago, as Trustee, et al., Appellees, and Northwestern University, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, First Division.

Released for publication September 12, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold J. Clark of Chicago, for Northwestern University, defendant-appellant; John J. Yowell, of Chicago, for Rani Pursell, plaintiff-appellant.

C. Lysle Smith, of Chicago, for First National Bank of Chicago, defendant-appellee; John R. Heath, William Burry, and George R. Hooper, all of Chicago, for Home for Destitute Crippled Children, defendant-appellee.


JUDGE BURKE delivered the opinion of the court.

On August 27, 1924, Paul Chamberlain Boomer executed and delivered a written instrument setting up a trust. On September 28, 1924, the three trustees accepted the trust. In Home for Destitute Crippled Children v. Boomer, 308 Ill.App. 170, we affirmed a decree finding that the trust was valid and compelling Boomer to deliver to the trustees the stock certificates which constituted the trust. In 1941 the First National...

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