CENTRAL STANDARD LIFE INS. CO. v. GARDNER

Gen. No. 48,438.

36 Ill. App.2d 292 (1962)

183 N.E.2d 881

Central Standard Life Insurance Company, etc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ray P. Gardner, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, First Division.

July 9, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirkland, Ellis, Hodson, Chaffetz & Masters, of Chicago (Thomas M. Thomas and J.J. Edman, of counsel), for appellant.

Brundage & Short, of Chicago (Charles F. Short, Jr., of counsel), for appellee; Winston, Strawn, Smith & Patterson, of Chicago, and Robert J. Clendenin, of Monmouth, for defendants.


MR. JUSTICE ENGLISH delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff, as successor trustee of a trust created through a reinsurance contract, sought court approval of the administration of the trust by itself and its predecessor trustee. At the conclusion of the litigation, fees were awarded to attorneys who performed services for two different classes of policyholder defendants. Plaintiff has appealed from those orders.

In 1929 a reinsurance agreement was entered...

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