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COPLEY v. COPLEY

Docket Nos. 18761, 22214.

126 Cal.App.3d 248 (1981)

178 Cal. Rptr. 842

HELEN K. COPLEY, Individually and as Co-trustee, etc., et al., Plaintiffs, Cross-defendants and Appellants, v. MICHAEL COPLEY et al., Defendants, Cross-complainants and Appellants. DAVID C. COPLEY et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. MICHAEL COPLEY et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

November 30, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Roger G. Steiner, Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, William T. Fitzgerald, Laurence L. Pillsbury and McInnis, Fitzgerald, Rees, Sharkey & McIntyre for Plaintiffs, Cross-defendants and Appellants.

Leslie E. Osborne, Jr., and Harrigan, Ruff & Osborne for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Hervey & Horton, James Edgar Hervey, Jacklyn Becker Horton, Parker, Milliken, Clark & O'Hara, and Frank W. Clark, Jr., for Defendants, Cross-complainants and Appellants and for Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

COLOGNE, J. —

THE SYLLABUS

Here is the perplexing dilemma facing the trustees of an inter vivos trust when they are given broad powers but must exercise them in an atmosphere heavily laden with conflicting interests. The trustees are given voting control of substantially all the stock of Copley Press, Inc., a large newspaper which had been operated by...

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