Seitzinger v. Becker

Citations

• 257 Pa. 264
• 101 A. 650
• 1917 Pa. LEXIS 721

Syllabus

<p>Trusts and trustees — Real estate — Deeds ■ — ■ Charitable use — Income — E quity — A c c ounting.</p> <p>Where in a suit in equity for an accounting, it appeared that defendants were trustees for an unincorporated charitable association and had taken title to lands by deed which provided that the lands should be improved and managed and held for the sole purpose of a general cemetery for the use of the people of the vicinity, and that no discrimination should be made for or against any portion of the inhabitants, but the rules and regulations of said cemetery should be so framed as to secure equal rights and privileges to all of whatever sect, denomination, society, association or name; that plaintiffs were the owners of certain of the cemetery lots, and that the association had appropriated part of the amount received from the sale of lots in the tract and other income arising therefrom to the erection of halls and other buildings for the purposes of the association, a decree for an accounting of the funds received, and enjoining defendants from applying funds which they might receive i|n future from the sale of lots to other purposes than those mentioned in the deed, was proper.</p>