John A. Creighton Home for Poor Working Girls v. Waltman

John A. Creighton, by his will, bequeathed to his executors in trust the sum of $50,000 (together with certain residuary sums) ; one-half of said sum was to be used to purchase a site and build thereon “a home for poor working girls” and the remaining one-half to be invested “in interest-bearing securities” and the “interest derived therefrom” was to be applied “to the support of the said charity.” The validity of this bequest was determined in In re Estate of Creighton, 91 Neb. 654, 136 N. W. 1001, and the trust there considered to be a “public charity.”

The trustees received the gross sum of…