People Ex Rel. Nelson v. Equitable Trust Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that cy pres could not be used to divert the proceeds of an educational trust to a civic association, even though that association’s activities were undoubtedly “laudable”
• applying cy pres to allow sale of land in charitable trust where its dedicated use as school became impracticable due to shifting populations, deterioration of existing building, and existence of another school that met needs of the area

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).