Mitchellville Community Center, Inc. v. Vos

How courts have described this case

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• generally requiring a right to receive a benefit for standing to challenge operation of a charitable trust
• “Because the will setting up this charitable trust identified the beneficiaries of the trust quite broadly, the trustees had the discretion to select the specific beneficiaries.”
• nonprofit corporation for which trust had agreed to help fund citizen center had standing to challenge trust’s decision to revoke funding, but lacked standing to challenge administration of trust and trust’s decision to build a separate community center in town
• under statutes permitting “interested parties” and other persons with a special interest to participate in proceeding involving a charitable trust, mere fact that person was a possible beneficiary was not sufficient to give that person standing, incorporating “special interest” test

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).