Sullivan v. Kodsi

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding state court jurisdiction over trustee because trust “can sue or be sued through its trustee in a representative capacity on behalf of the trust”
• reasonably foreseeable that successor trustee would be haled into court in forum state where litigation had already commenced at time appointed as successor trustee
• “A written trust possesses a distinct legal existence that is recognized by statute ***.”
• in Illinois “trustees in their representative capacity are the same entity as the trust.”
• “[I]n Illinois, trustees in their representative capacity are the same entity as the trust.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).