HURON -- The two sides in a dispute over disbursement of a $250,000 trust fund leftover from the closure of the Enchanted World Doll Museum in Mitchell presented their cases to a judge Monday.
Dennis Padrnos, the Mitchell attorney representing the doll museum's nonprofit board, said the hearing lasted three hours and each side called three witnesses. The judge did not ask for oral arguments from the attorney and will presumably take the matter under consideration for a decision at some later date.
The doll museum's nonprofit board members want to give the trust-fund money to the United Federation of Doll Clubs, which operates a doll museum in Kansas City. According to Padrnos, CorTrust Bank manages the trust fund and wants to give the money to the South Dakota Community Foundation's Mitchell Area Charitable Foundation Endowment Fund.
The museum's closing was announced in February. The dispute over the trust fund is being heard in Huron because the trust was originally created in Beadle County, Padrnos said.
