Legal Opinion
Brown v. Ryan
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided April 17, 2003No. 1-02-0594PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRESIDING JUSTICE THEIS
delivered the opinion of the court:
Plaintiffs, Charles Foster Brown III, Heidi Hall Jones, and Ned Ochiltree, Jr., in their capacity as trustees of the Meyer Family Foundation (the Trustees), sought a declaratory judgment that the plain language of the Meyer Trust Agreement (the Trust Agreement) permitted them to terminate the Meyer Family Foundation (the Trust) and distribute the corpus of the Trust to the Oakleaf Foundation, under which the Trustees would serve as some of its fiduciaries. Defendant, the Attorney General of the State of Illinois, on behalf of the…
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