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HARRIS TRUST & SAVINGS BANK v. BEACH

No. 63887.

118 Ill.2d 1 (1987)

513 N.E.2d 833

HARRIS TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK et al. v. FRANCES GLORE BEACH et al., Appellees (Charles F. Glore III et al., Appellants).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied October 5, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidley & Austin, of Chicago (Loren E. Juhl, Henry A. Preston and John C. Vryhof, of counsel), for appellants Charles F. Glore III et al.

Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, of Chicago (Francis J. Higgins, Robert L. Wiesenthal and Alice S. Lonoff, of counsel), for appellees Frances Glore Beach and Robert Hixon Glore.

Winston & Strawn, of Chicago (Frederick G. Acker, Carol A. Harrington, Nancy J. Brown and Kimball R. Anderson, of counsel), for appellees California Institute of Technology et al.

Judgments reversed; cause remanded.

JUSTICE SIMON delivered the opinion of the court:

In construing either a trust or a will the challenge is to find the settlor's or testator's intent and, provided that the intention is not against public policy, to give it effect. (See Hull v. Adams (1948), 399 Ill. 347, 352.) Courts search for intent by analyzing both the words used in the instrument and the circumstances...

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