Village of Mount Prospect v. People Ex Rel. Hartigan

How courts have described this case

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• stating that taxpayers, in particular, have standing to enforce a trust upon which public property is held
• stating that “the court, not the trustee, decides whether to apply the cy pres doctrine to a particular trust”
• stating that “not even the legislature can authorize the municipality to alienate its interest,” and that courts have original and inherent jurisdiction to respond to trustee’s request for guidance concerning trustee’s powers and duties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).