Miller v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

How courts have described this case

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• cy pres is as applicable to absolute bequest to charitable organization as it is to bequest in trust
• cy pres is as applicable to absolute bequest to charitable organization as it is to bequest in trust
• “the fact that the testator bequeathed practically all of his estate for charitable purposes, is sound evidence denoting a general charitable intent”
• “[T]here are no hard and fast rules to determine when the intent of the testator is general,” and the “absence of a gift over” or reversionary clause is simply “another indication of a general charitable intent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).