Blackbourn v. Tucker
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Tate county. HoN. B. T. Kimbrough, Chancellor. The case is stated in the opinion.’ The validity of the dispositions in the will must depend upon the law as it was when the will took effect by the death of the testator. 8 Paige, 304; 4 Hill, 138; Sckouler on Wills, 10; 1 Bedfield on Wills, 359; 3 Pom. Eq.
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From the chancery court of Tate county. HoN. B. T. Kimbrough, Chancellor. The case is stated in the opinion.’ The validity of the dispositions in the will must depend upon the law as it was when the will took effect by the death of the testator. 8 Paige, 304; 4 Hill, 138; Sckouler on Wills, 10; 1 Bedfield on Wills, 359; 3 Pom. Eq. Jur., § 1162.; 1 Jarman on Wills, 290; 39 Ohio St., 596. Appellant’s contention is that, under §§ 269, 270, constitution 1890, no person or body politic can become a trustee of a bounty for the purpose of being given or devoted to charitable uses. This is clearly…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
By his will, made on the seventeeth day of August, 1887, A. L. Blackboiirn, after some small bequests to his wife, the appellant, devised and bequeathed the remainder of his estate, real and personal, to the Senatobia Educational Association, to be by said association applied “ in maintaining and keeping in a prosperous condition that institution of learning owned by said association, and known as the Blackbourn College for Girls, in Senatobia, Miss., or in both maintaining said college and erecting such additional and suitable buildings to said college as their *743judgment may dictate, having…
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