CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK v. KIDS HOPE UNITED, INC.

No. 4-08-0162.

898 N.E.2d 734 (2008)

The CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK OF PARIS as Trustee of the La Fern L. Blackman Trust; as Trustee of the Ettoile Davis Trust; as Trustee of the Ruth Cook Memorial Fund; and as Trustee of the Gladys Stratton Trust; and The Edgar County Bank & Trust Company of Paris, Illinois, as Trustee of the Samuel R. Smith Trust, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. KIDS HOPE UNITED, INC., an Illinois Not-for-Profit-Corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District.

November 21, 2008.


Justice COOK delivered the opinion of the court:

In the 1960s, grantors La Fern L. Blackman and Ettoile Davis each executed a trust that benefitted the Edgar County Children's Home (the Home). The Blackman trust stated that the Home would continue to receive income from the trust until the Home "ceased to operate or exist." The Davis trust stated that the Home would continue to receive income from the trust until the Home...

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