Brown

Two appeals in the same case are presented together. One of them (No. 22766) is taken from a judgment removing Memorial National Home Foundation (hereinafter designated as Foundation) as trustee of a charitable trust and granting other relief; the other (No. 22871) attacks an order fixing compensation of receivers, etc.

Appeal Fbom Judgment

Basically the litigation is a struggle between Foundation and American Gold Star Mothers, Inc. (herein referred to as Gold Star) for control of the assets of charitable trusts created for the benefit of Gold Star mothers. The attorney general instituted an action against both of these corporations seeking declaratory relief as to their conflicting claims; Gold Star filed a cross-complaint. The assets were in the name and under the control of Foundation. The court held it had abused and abandoned its trusts, should be removed as trustee and a new trustee should be appointed; it also appointed receivers to manage the property pending the selection of a successor trustee, the taking of an accounting from Foundation, etc. Though designated as interlocutory, this court held the judgment to be final for purposes of appeal (Brown v. Memorial Nat.…