Gould v. Board of Home Missions

Agnes Y. Gould, deceased, devised to the defendant, a foreign corporation, subject to a life estate in her daughter, the plaintiff, the real estate in controversy, “to be appropriated and applied for the use and-benefit of the Woman’s Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.” A demurrer to plaintiff’s petition was overruled, the will was declared void, and judgment quieting title in plaintiff, heir at law, was entered, from which defendant appeals.

Section 6273, Rev. St. 1913, provides: “Nonresident aliens and corporations not incorporated under the…