Pennebaker v. Pennebaker Home for Girls

Opinion op the Court by

Van Sant, Commissioner

—Affirming in part and reversing in part.

The decision involves the authority of the trustee •of a charitable trust to make final disposition of the real estate devised to it under the will of Dr. William F. Pennebaker, who immediately before his death in the year 1922 was the sole survivor of the famous colony commonly known as the Society of Shakers, located at Pleasant Hill, sometimes called Shakertown, Kentucky. The Society was formed in the year 1805 by the execution and recordation of an instrument known as the -covenant. Persons could become…