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FORD v. NEWMAN

No. 51449.

77 Ill.2d 335 (1979)

396 N.E.2d 539

ROBERT FREEMAN FORD et al., Appellees, v. JUDITH FORD NEWMAN et al. (John Robert Ford et al., Appellants).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied November 30, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.M. Pinney, Jr., of Husted, Pinney, Ogg & Caccia, of San Francisco, and Edward J. Kionka, of Columbia, for appellants.

Thompson & Strong, of Pontiac (R.D. Thompson and Kenneth L. Strong, of counsel) and Sidley & Austin, of Chicago (James E.S. Baker, Loren E. Juhl, Robert A. Malstrom, and Henry L. Mason III, of counsel), for appellees.

Richard O. Erdmann, of Follmer, West, Erdmann & Clem, of Champaign, and Nicholas Stevenson, of Mandel, Lipton & Stevenson, Ltd., of Chicago, for amicus curiae Child Care Association of Illinois.

Judgment affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE MORAN delivered the opinion of the court:

This case involves a determination of the beneficiaries under a trust in which the plaintiffs, Robert Freeman Ford and the Bank of Pontiac, are cotrustees. The appellants-defendants (defendants) are the two adopted children of Tod Ford III, a named trust beneficiary, now deceased.

On July 16, 1969, the plaintiffs filed a complaint which averred, in part, that the defendants have...

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