Young v. St. Mark's Lutheran Church

Citations

• 200 Pa. 332
• 49 A. 887
• 1901 Pa. LEXIS 494

Syllabus

<p>Will—Accumulations— Charitable bequests.</p> <p>Testator directed the deposit of sixty bonds of $1,000 each with a trustee to pay annuities aggregating $2,000 to certain relatives during their life, $300 per year to a committee for the relief of the poor, and $300 per year to the proper authorities of a church toward the education of a young man for the ministry. lie continued : “The bonds or proceeds thereof to be eventually used as I may hereafter direct.” The fifteen lines following were left vacant, and were never filled in, although two years later testator added a codicil to his will, and shortly thereafter died. A case stated was framed between the next of kin of the testator and the church to determine the validity of the trust for the education of a young man for the ministry. Held, that during the lifetime of the annuitants, the trust was valid, and that after their deaths it could be determined whether the disproportion between the amount of the fund and the sum applied to charitable uses would render the bequest void under the law against accumulations.</p>