Hope's Estate

Citations

• 253 Pa. 400
• 98 A. 622
• 1916 Pa. LEXIS 856

Syllabus

<p>Wills — Construction—Charitable bequests — Hospital “devotedT to certain purpose.</p> <p>Where testator bequeathed part of his estate “to any hospital in the City of Philadelphia that shall be devoted to the treatment of contagious diseases for the purpose of endowing a ward therein,” and provided for a gift over if there should be no such hospital at the time the legacy became payable, the testator intended a gift to a hospital devoted to the treatment of contagious diseases and not a hospital that contained a ward for contagious diseases or an isolation ward where contagious diseases are incidentally treated, or a hospital that would be willing to establish such a ward; and where it appeared that no hospital devoted to such purpose existed in the city, the lower court properly held that the alternative gift took effect.</p>