LaGrand v. LaGrand

This is a dispute over the disposition of the beneficial interest in shares of stock held in a trust established by the will of the late John LaGrand.

The will bequeathed stock of testator’s company, LaGrand Industrial Supply Company, to four named trustees, subject to the following condition:

"[T]he beneficial ownership* * *shall be vested equally in each of the following persons:

Louis LaGrand

Lawrence Schick

Helen Schick

William LaGrand, Sr.

Brian LaGrand

Marie Hyland

Sadie Porco

Robert M. Reed

Jess Meyers

who were employed by said company at my death.” Beneficiaries were also to include "Any other…