IN RE ESTATE OF GOODKIND

No. 1-04-1619.

827 N.E.2d 6 (2005)

356 Ill. App.3d 607

292 Ill.Dec. 859

In re ESTATE OF John S. GOODKIND, Deceased (American Cancer Society, a New York Not-for-Profit corporation, and William D. Goodkind, an Individual, Petitioners-Appellants, v. John Goodkind, and Eduard Glavinskas, as Guardian Ad Litem for Phoenix Harvey, f/k/a Phoenix Goodkind, a Minor, and William D. Goodkind, as Independent Executor of the Estate of John S. Goodkind, Deceased, Respondents-Appellees).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

March 14, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Geis, James Geis Law Office, Chicago, for Appellant.

Eduard Adam Glavinskas, Porikos, Rodes, Economos & Glavinskas, Chicago, for Appellee.


Justice GORDON delivered the opinion of the court:

This case returns to this court on appeal from a hearing to construct the will of John Goodkind (John) which we mandated in our decision in In re Estate of Goodkind, No. 1-02-1079 (2003) (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23) (Goodkind I). On appeal, appellants, William Goodkind (William) and the American Cancer Society (ACS), contend that the probate court erred by failing to construe the language...

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