Kelly v. Guild

This is a direct appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Kankakee County construing the will of Jennie K. Groenewoud, in which she bequeathed one half the residue of her estate “to the Trustees of Old Peoples Home Trust of Kankakee, Illinois, to be used in establishing an old people’s home in accordance with the purposes of said trust.”

Plaintiffs, as heirs of the testator, brought this action by which they claimed said residue, joining as defendants the executor, the Attorney General, the State’s Attorney, the former trustees of the Old Peoples Home Trust, and the Stewards Foundation,…