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Warren v. Board of Regents of the Univ. Sys. of Ga.

Plaintiffs' contribution of money to a charitable trust did not give them standing to maintain a suit to enforce the trust.

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Plaintiff-appellants Carl S. Warren and Earl Davis1 contributed money to a charitable trust establishing the Herbert E. Miller Chair in Financial Accounting, an endowed chair in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. They subsequently sued the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, the University of Georgia Foundation, and Russell Barefield as the Director of the J. M. Tull School of Accounting at the University of Georgia, alleging a breach of fiduciary duty under the terms of the trust. In essence, plaintiffs claimed the Miller Chair was harmed when Barefield, allegedly ignoring both appointment criteria under the trust and university hiring procedures, named an unqualified, non-CPA personal friend as the first holder of the Miller chair in financial accounting and caused more than $135,000 to be improperly paid to that holder between 1992 until his resignation in 1996. Plaintiffs prayed for an accounting, the return to the trust of all money paid to the chairholder, and the disqualification of Barefield as administrator or trustee.

Defendants admitted the chronology while denying the material allegations regarding breach of fiduciary duty, and immediately moved to dismiss the complaint. The trial court granted these collective motions, concluding that standing to enforce the terms of the charitable Miller Trust is granted exclusively to the Attorney General under OCGA § 53-12-115. The trial court further determined that there was no just reason for delay and made the dismissal final under OCGA § 9-11-54 b.2

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