Epperly v. Mercantile Trust & S. Bank of Quincy, Ill.

PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

Appellant, the Attorney General of Missouri, seeks to reverse the ruling of the trial court that a charitable trust provision in the last will and testament of Edna A. Lore, deceased, is invalid and void, and the further finding “that the same is indefinite, uncertain and so remote as not to be enforceable and practical in operation.” As succinctly put in the May issue of the Missouri Bar, “Courts & CLE Bulletin,” the question is: “Does a devise in trust to unspecified Protestant churches and religious organizations ‘to save souls * * ’ create a valid, public…