(defendants challenged trial court’s appointment of an independent farm manager to safeguard property pending a final determination of the parties’ rights to 640 acres of farmland owned by various family members; in affirming the trial court’s order, the court first ruled that jurisdiction existed pursuant to Ill. S. Ct. R. 307(a)(2), allowing an appeal from an interlocutory order appointing a “receiver”; appointment of an independent manager was necessary because plaintiffs’ property and profits were in danger of waste or misconduct since one of the defendants was managing the farm; trial court had no duty to recuse himself because he owned only a de minimis number of shares in the bank he appointed to manage the property, and the trial court’s inquiry to the bank as to whether it still provided management services was not an improper ex parte communication).