James Cruikshank, as Executor v. the Home for the Friendless, Respondents…

Summary

The Court affirmed the lower court, holding that the testator's primary devise to a future charitable corporation was invalid because it created an unlawful suspension of alienation, that the alternative gifts to existing charities vested at the testator's death, and that a lapsed devise to a predeceased sister fell into the residuary clause under the Revised Statutes.