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IN RE ESTATE OF ELLIS

No. 106461.

923 N.E.2d 237 (2009)

236 Ill.2d 45

In re ESTATE OF Grace ELLIS, Deceased (Shriners Hospitals for Children, Appellant, v. James G. Bauman, Indiv. and as Ex'r of the Estate of Grace Ellis, Deceased, et al., Appellees).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied January 25, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne T. Lofthouse and Andrew Lofthouse, Park Ridge, for appellant.

Kerry R. Peck, Ray J. Koenig III and Timothy J. Ritchey, of Peck, Bloom, Austriaco & Koenig, LLC, Chicago, for appellee James G. Bauman.

OPINION

Justice BURKE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

Grace Ellis executed a will in 1964 naming Shriners Hospitals for Children (Shriners) as beneficiary of her estate if she died without direct descendants. In 1999, she executed a new will naming James G. Bauman as sole beneficiary. Bauman was the pastor of the church of which Ellis was a member. When Ellis died in 2003, the 1999 will was admitted to probate. It was not until 2006 that...

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