Peth v. Spear

Citations

• 63 Wash. 291
• 115 P. 164
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 1195

Syllabus

<p>Charities — Creation—Purpose of Trust — Education. A charitable trust for educational purposes is created by conveyances in trust for the benefit of the membership of a brotherhood for the purpose of a communal industrial institution and the education of the people in the principles of socialism.</p> <p>Charities — Beneficiaries—Certainty. A conveyance for charitable purposes, in trust for the membership, now existing or hereafter to exist, of an unincorporated brotherhood, is not invalid because the beneficiaries are an unascertained or uncertain body or class, that being characteristic of charitable trusts.</p> <p>Charities — Cessation of Use — Quieting Title — Answer. In an action to quiet title, an answer alleging that a charitable trust had failed by reason of the fact that the beneficiaries had procured a dissolution of the society through the courts, and a judicial sale of the land, which was void, does not show that the title reverted to the donors of the trust, but only shows a cessation of the uses for which the property was devoted, and is insufficient, on demurrer, to show title in the successors of the donors.</p>