Davis v. Cary

CLAY, Commissioner.

This is a suit to clear the title to a “home tract” at one time owned by John D. Skinner, since deceased. The cloud on the title was a devise in his will which purported to create a charitable trust. The Chancellor adjudged that the charitable trust was effectively created and the title to the property was vested in appellee Christian Church Homes of Kentucky, Inc. The heirs of Skinner appeal.

When Skinner died in 1922 he left a will devising the “home place” to his wife for life and at her death it was directed *412“that this tract of land he sold by the officers of the Church…