Legal Opinion
Rosser v. Prem
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided September 3, 1982No. 1364, September Term, 1981PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
"Put not your trust in money but put your money in trust.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes,
"The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table” (1858)
The first question in this appeal is whether the trust that Eleanor B. Wasserman sought to create in her will is a valid charitable trust. Because our answer is affirmative, we need not consider the second question — whether the doctrine of cypres, Md. Est. & Trusts Code Ann. § 14-302 (1974), would apply. Our decision requires reversal of the decree of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County (Brizendine, J.) and means that two thirds of Mrs. Wasserman’s estate will be…
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