AMERICAN CANCER SOC., ETC. v. HAMMERSTEIN

No. 42930, 42920.

631 S.W.2d 858 (1981)

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, ST. LOUIS DIVISION, et al., Plaintiffs-Respondents, v. Robert W. HAMMERSTEIN, Jr., etc., Defendant-Respondent-Appellant, v. EST. OF John G. KNOLL, Jr., Dec'd., Defendant-Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Two.

Motion for Rehearing or to Transfer Denied February 19, 1982.

Application to Transfer Denied April 13, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Murphy, St. Louis, for respondents-appellants.

Donald S. Hilleary, Clayton, for American Cancer Society.

David G. Lupo, St. Louis, for Robert W. Hammerstein, Jr., etc., respondents-appellants.

Gregory D. O'Shea, St. Louis, for St. Luke's Evangelical Church, Shirley Kohler Malcom, Carolyn Malcom Biehle, Eileen Kohler Gerard and Paul David Laubengayer.

William S. Preiss, Clayton, for Rock Presbyterian Church.

Donald V. Fraser, St. Louis, for Immanuel Lutheran Church, Olive Kraus Eichorn, Erna Kraus Martin, Alta Kraus Schmidt, Norville Kraus, Armin F. Kraus, Carl Kraus, Kay Marie Kraus, Al Jay Kraus, Jane Kraus Schuttenhelm, Ellerd W. Dierks, Charlotte Dierks Davis, Minerva Dierks Ainsley, Gloria Dierks Prindiville, and Emma Kraus Stiegemeyer.

Jeremiah Nixon, Thurman, Nixon, Smith, Howald, Weber & Bowles, Hillsboro, for St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Ada Kohler Huckie, D. J. Huckie, James W. Kohler, Cheryl Gay Kohler, Karen Kay Kohler, Henry Blunk, and Dorothy Stephan Williams.

William G. Guerri, Thompson & Mitchell, St. Louis, for Heart Ass'n of St. Louis.

Donald H. Clooney, St. Louis, for Clara Kraus Zamzow, Ellis R. Schmidt, Elaine Schmidt Voelkel, Ellis R. Schmidt, Arthur H. Huckie, Ronald Hemme and Dennis Hemme.

R. A. Wegmann, Richeson, Roberts, Wegmann, Gasaway, Stewart & Schneider, P. C., Hillsboro, for Irma Kohler Glatt, Grant Walter Kohler Glatt, Grace Glatt Powell, Carol Ann Whaley, Gail Ida Whaley, Dixie Kay Whaley, June Eleanora Whaley, and Gary Olen Whaley.

Charles E. Roth (Guardian ad Litem) (court-appointed), Clayton, for all of the aforesaid unborn and unknown respondents.


Motion for Rehearing or to Transfer to Supreme Court Denied February 19, 1982.

GUNN, Judge.

Appellants—the trustee of a testamentary trust and the estate of the life beneficiary of the trust—appeal from the trial court's ruling that an attempted trust termination was void. Respondent, American Cancer Society, is one of several remaindermen named in the trust to benefit from its assets in the event the trust was in existence after the death of...

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