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Trusts-Effect Of Gift To Executor For "Charity And Other Worthy Objects"

Michigan Law Review

A testator directed his executor to sell all his assets within five years and to distribute the proceeds to "such charities and worthy objects" as the executor and the testator's sister should determine, "remembering . . . the City of Fort Worth . . . , the City of Vancouver . . . , Parker County, in Texas, and England, places to which I have become attached." The executor proceeded to administer the estate and gave some of it to the Methodist Episcopal Bishop of Texas for the use of his church. The attorney general of Texas then filed a …