Levings v. Danforth

SWOFFORD, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in an action brought by testamentary trustees of a charitable trust established under the will of Charles Raymond Carpenter.

The trust provisions of this will provided for the establishment or maintenance of a hospital at Tarkio, Missouri. In the petition the trustees assert that the charitable trust cannot be carried out according to its terms. They ask that the trust be administered cy pres and that they be authorized to liquidate the trust corpus (farm, livestock, equipment, etc.), invest the proceeds and hold the same together with the…