Brouse v. Old Phoenix National Bank of Medina

This cause came on before the court upon the appeal of defendants, the Salvation Army, Noel O’Mara, Ruth Oenslager, Goodwill Industries of Akron, Ohio, and Stan Hywet Foundation, Inc. (defendant beneficiaries), from an order of the Summit County Court of Common Pleas, Probate Division, finding a valid exercise of a power of appointment and ordering the funds held in trust distributed according to the terms of the will of Sterling W. Alderfer. We affirm.

On September 22, 1983, plaintiff, Robert C. Brouse, Executor of the Estate of Sterling Alderfer, filed a complaint for a will construction and…