Jones v. Renshaw

Citations

• 130 Pa. 327
• 18 A. 651
• 1889 Pa. LEXIS 1188

Syllabus

<p>(а) A testator devised real estate to the “Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church of the Northern Liberties of Pittsburgh, commonly called the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh,” to be held for charitable or religious uses.</p> <p>(б) The church accepting the devise subsequently ceased to exist as a religious society, but before its dissolution it conveyed the property to trustees of the Presbytery of Pittsburgh, in trust, who then conveyed to the Presbytery, for the same uses.</p> <p>1. In such case, under § 10, act of April 26, 1855, P. L. 331, the property remained with the indelible stamp of the trust upon it, and by no failure of a trustee, nor by the object of the trust ceasing, could it revert to the heirs of the testator.</p>