Easum v. Bohon

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

This appeal presents the question as to whether the heirs and next of kin of deceased members of the society called Shakers, located near Pleasant Hill in Mercer county, Kentucky, are entitled, through the medium of a resulting trust, to their ancestors ’ proportion of the property -of the society when it ceases to be such upon dissolution, which it is charged occurred in 1910. A sufficient history of the society, its character, objects and purposes, including the motives prompting its members to form and enter into it, will be found in the opinion…