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Article: Alberta Bair meant what she wrote, attorney says
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- The Billings Gazette
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- June 18, 2005
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Alberta Bair intended that her "trust" should last forever and that the operation and continuance of her family's museum at Martinsdale should be left to the "sole" discretion of the advisory board set up to administer it.
The state's effort to substitute its judgment for the advisory board's is ignoring her intent and the language of the trust document, and should be rejected, an attorney for the board told District judge G. Todd Baugh Friday. A five-member board advises the trustee, U.S. Bank, on the management and disposition of the proceeds of the Bair trust.
In a 36-page response to the state, Brooke Murphy asked Baugh to deny a request by the Montana attorney general's office for a ...