Western State Hospital v. General Board of State Hospitals for Insane

The will of Sidney R. Murkland, duly probated in the Circuit Court of Amherst county, after directing the payment of the testator’s debts and two small legacies, contains this prevision: “To ‘Trustees State Hospital, Staunton, Va.,’ where my son, Sidney Price Murkland, now is cared for, the entire balance of my property, real and personal, the increase from which to be used by said trustees for purchase extra comforts patients said hospital, for all time.”

Shortly after the death of said testator a suit against his administrator c. t. a. was instituted in the Corporation Court of the city of…