McClure v. Carter, Ex'r

Curry Carter, executor and trustee under the will of Alma B. Foster, deceased, filed his bill in the court below against the beneficiaries named in the will and the decedent’s heirs at law, praying inter alia for the interpretation of the will and the determination of whether under certain of its provisions a valid charitable trust was established. The defendants filed an answer and cross bill charging that the trust sought to be created was not charitable or public but was a mere private or benevolent trust which is void under the rule against perpetuities, that the property sought to be…