Rice v. Stanley

In my view, the language of the wills involved herein is totally defective. It requires the trustee to hold the estate until the building of a special hospital by someone in such a way as to satisfy the criteria contained in the wills. Distribution to charity is conditioned upon this event. The wills do not provide for any other distribution.

*227No perpetuities cases, such as this one, involving gifts for charitable purposes that are conditioned upon the occurrence of events that might occur, if at all, at a time beyond the period of the rule against perpetuities, can be found in Ohio. But a fact…