St. Luke's Home v. . Ass'n for Indigent Females

The testator, by his original will bearing date in October, 1865, and a codicil made in June, 1868, gave two sums of $5,000 and $20,000 respectively, to a single institution named and described as "The Society for the Relief of Indigent Aged Females."

There are but two claimants of these bequests, both incorporated institutions and neither bearing precisely the name used in the will and codicil, but each administering a worthy charity, more or less closely assimilating to that indicated by the terms of the bequests.

No one is here to contend that the bequests are void for uncertainty, or…