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ular interest in managing that property and envisioned that it
would be used some day as a site for religious activities.9 All
of the children had a particular interest in the Cherrydale
residence, which had been the site of their home starting around
1950 and thereafter while they were living with their parents and
which Mr. Stone and the Company decided could serve as a place to
house out-of-town business visitors to Stone Manufacturing’s
operating facilities located on the Cherrydale property.
Mr. Stone and Ms. Stone found their children’s desires to
become actively involved during their parents’ lives in managing
certain assets that their parents owned to be consistent with
their own wishes. That is because, as discussed above, at least
as early as the last six months of 1995 Mr. Stone and Ms. Stone,
although in control of their respective assets, no longer were
interested or actively involved in managing those assets. As a
result, the prospect of having their children become actively
involved in the management of their respective assets was very
appealing to Mr. Stone and Ms. Stone. To that end, Mr. Stone and
Ms. Stone encouraged their children to attempt to come to an
agreement among themselves as to the particular assets that each
child wanted to become actively involved in managing. Mr. and
Ms. Stone believed that any such agreement, if one could be
9When Ms. Fraser was a child, she spent a lot of time at,
and developed a strong connection to, the Cedar Mountain prop-
erty.
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