Connecticut College v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• denying application of cy pres “to depart from the settlor’s direction merely because it suits [the trustee’s] own convenience to do so”
• finding a “voluntary change in policy” inadequate to justify applying cy pres
• “Nor may a trustee by his own act produce changed conditions which frustrate the donor’s intention and still claim the gift through the application of the cy pres doctrine.”
• “It is generally held that a charitable trust may be created by an instrument which does not contain words of trust . . . if its language indicates a charitable purpose on the part of the testatrix.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).