FIRST NAT'L BANK OF CHICAGO v. CANTON COUNCIL OF CAMPFIRE GIRLS, INC.

No. 53339.

85 Ill.2d 507 (1981)

THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO, Trustee, v. CANTON COUNCIL OF CAMPFIRE GIRLS, Inc., et al., Appellees (Board of Trustees of the Canton Park District, Appellant).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied October 19, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Biggam, Cowan & Lunding, of Chicago (Edward V. Scoby, of counsel), for appellant.

Defrees & Fiske, of Chicago, and Baymiller & Christison, of Peoria (Richard E. Voland, Edward J. Griffin, Marvin S. Helfand, John K. Silk, and John M. Cregor, Jr., of counsel), for appellee Kickapoo Council of Girl Scouts.


Reversed and remanded.

MR. JUSTICE RYAN delivered the opinion of the court:

In an inter vivos trust, William Ingersoll provided that at his death certain income be paid to the Girl Scouts of Canton, Illinois. The trust also provided that the portion of the income of the trust payable to any organization that ceased to exist was to be paid to the Canton Park District. Since no Girl Scout troops met regularly in Canton at the time of Ingersoll's death...

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