Case Name: Oren D. Becker, Extr. v. Edwin C. Fisher et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1925
Citations: 3 Ohio Law Abs. 200
Docket Number: No. 18385
Parties: Oren D. Becker, Extr. v. Edwin C. Fisher et al.
Judges: Marshall, C. J., Allen and Kinkade, JJ., con-curr.
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 3
Pages: 200–200

Head Matter:
No. 312
No. 18385
Oren D. Becker, Extr. v. Edwin C. Fisher et al.
Error to the Court of Appeals of Clinton county. On rehearing.
1271. WILLS—A valid charitable trust, enforceable in equity is created by this will.

Opinion:
DAY, J.
A will provides: "I give, devise and bequeath all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate to Oren D. . Becker or some one I may appoint in his stead, to hold without bond and to distribute as I have given instructions." And a codicil thereto provides: "In Item 5 of my will I desire to be more explicit. I give to my executor, Oren D. Becker, the remainder and residue of my estate to hold in trust, to be invested by him and used to perpetuate my name and interest in Hawes Methodist Epis-cqpal Church and to assist needy and worthy causes and persons as he understands my wishes and practice to be when living, and at his death (Oren D. Becker) if there be still a residue or remainder of my estate, it shall go to Elizabeth Gamble, Deaconness Home Association, incorporated under the laws of the State of Ohio, for the purpose of endowing a Hawes Free Bed in Christ's Hospital for the sick and suffering. The receipt of the treasurer of this organization shall be sufficient discharge to his executor for the same."
Held, such will creates a valid charitable trust enforceable in equity.
Judgment reversed.
Marshall, C. J., Allen and Kinkade, JJ., con-curr.