Congregational Conference Appeal

Opinion by

Me. Justice Hoeace Steen,

In this proceeding a petition for a declaratory judgment asks for judicial construction of a clause in a deed. We believe that the provision in question should receive a more pragmatic and less literal interpretation than that given it by the court below.

On December 15,1931, Rachel J. Hartman, an elderly spinster, conveyed, as a gift, to the Congregational Conference of Pennsylvania (now known as Conference of Congregational and Christian Churches of Pennsylvania) a farm owned by her in Mifflin County of approximately 169 acres containing thereon a stand of…