Court Opinion

ID: 9544833
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 17:02:19.506586+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:13:42.264234
License: Public Domain

HOWE, Justice
(concurring in the result):
I concur in the result. I prefer to rest my concurrence on the ground that the trust instrument evinces a clear intent on the part of the trustors to make a gift to a children’s hospital institution in Salt Lake City which was then technically named The Primary Children’s Hospital but which the trustors erroneously designated The Children’s Latter-Day Saints Hospital. That hospital still exists and is still operated for the same purposes, the care of children, as it was when the trust instrument was signed. Only the ownership has changed. That fact is immaterial since it was the trustors’ intent to benefit the institution. The gift was made to the Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints only because at that time it was the owner of the hospital institution and was the legal entity through which funds had to be channelled to reach the hospital. But there was no intent manifested to benefit the Corporation of the President. On the contrary, the intent was to benefit the hospital institution. As the majority opinion expresses, the trust instrument contains no language even suggesting that the trustors wished to make their gift contingent upon continued ownership or management of the hospital by the Corporation of the President.
Having taken this view of the case, it is unnecessary to discuss or rely upon the cy pres doctrine.