Gredig v. Sterling

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, as heirs at law of George H. Hermann, filed a bill in equity to forfeit two certain devises and bequests in trust contained in Hermann’s will, one of property to-trustees for the establishment and maintenance of a public charity hospital, and the other to the city of Houston for a public park. The bill prayed that appellants be decreed to be the equitable owners of the property so devised and bequeathed, that appel-lees, the hospital trustees and the city, be compelled to convey to them the legal title which it was alleged they and it held originally in trust…