ROBERTS v. NORTHERN TRUST CO.

No. 81 C 0040.

550 F.Supp. 729 (1982)

Alison Leilani ROBERTS, Plaintiff, v. The NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY, as trustee of the Marjorie Lewis Griffing Trust, dated April 3, 1963, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Queen's Medical Center, Bishop Trust Company, Ltd., as Executor of Last Will & Testament of Robert P. Griffing, Jr., and Unborn Descendants of Alison Leilani Roberts, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

March 1, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Hoskins, Allan J. Sweet, Charles D. Fox IV, Schiff, Hardin & Waite, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Gary L. Prior, Robert T. Palmer, McDermott, Will & Emery, Jill Ann Coleman, Levy & Erens, Stephen P. Kenney, Lord, Bissell & Brook, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MORAN, District Judge.

This is a declaratory judgment action in which plaintiff, Alison Leilani Roberts ("Roberts"), seeks a determination that her father, Robert P. Griffing ("Mr. Griffing"), by his last will and testament, effectively exercised his testamentary power of appointment over a marital trust established by his late wife and Roberts' mother, Marjorie Lewis Griffing ("Mrs. Griffing"). Defendant, The Northern Trust Company...

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