American Bible Society v. Thronson

John M. Hamilton, a resident of Wisconsin, died on the 20th day of May, 1932, at the age of eighty-two years. He left an estate consisting of real and personal property amounting to nearly $34,000. He was a member of the Presbyterian church. On the 1st day of October, 1919, he paid over to the Board of Foreign Missions of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, a foreign corporation (hereafter called the board), the sum of $1,000. Upon the receipt of said sum the board executed and delivered to him one of its annuity bonds by which it obligated itself to pay to him, so long as he…