Salvation Army v. Appleton State Bank

This appeal involves the construction and effect of paragraph 3 of testator’s will which provides as follows:

“Third. I give and bequeath to the Salvation Army of Appleton, Wisconsin, the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000). It is my wish that this money be expended by the Salvation Army for the benefit of the needy people in the city of Appleton, Wisconsin.”

The Salvation Army is a Wisconsin corporation having for its purposes the undertaking of “charitable, educational, missionary philanthropic, beneficial and religious work of the character that has been and is being conducted by the…