PHELPS v. LA MOILLE

Gen. No. 64-14.

52 Ill. App.2d 164 (1964)

201 N.E.2d 634

Calhoun Phelps, as Executor and Trustee Under the Last Will and Testament of Jerome R. Chester, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. La Moille, Illinois, Lodge No. 270, A.F. & A.M., Wyanet, Illinois, Lodge No. 231, A.F. & A.M., Gil Barnard Lodge No. 908, A.F. & A.M., Defendants. Boys Town of Nebraska, a Corporation, Illinois Masonic Hospital Association, of Chicago, Illinois, a Corporation, Shriners Crippled Children's Hospital, a Corporation, Defendants-Appellants. Lovisa Nelson, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Third District.

October 9, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Trimble & Trimble, and R.K. Rainey, all of Princeton, for appellants.

Peterson, Johnson & Martin, and John C. Hedrich, all of Princeton (John C. Hedrich and Watts C. Johnson, of counsel), for appellees.


CULBERTSON, P.J.

This cause is before us on an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Bureau County, entered December 19, 1963, construing the Will of Jerome R. Chester, deceased. The Will, by its-terms, left the residue of the personal property in the estate to a Trustee "to be delivered by said Trustee to such charities" as the testator shall have designated to such Trustee, for the uses and purposes of such...

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