Osborn v. Currie

The following opinion was filed February 15, 1938:

FowleR, J.

As appears from the preceding statement of facts, James IT. Mead, deceased, made provision in his will *320for a trust fund to be devoted to or toward the establishment and support of a public library in the city of Sheboygan. The provisions of the will respecting this trust are for ready reference given below in the margin.1

*321That the will made provision for a charitable trust is plain. See Maxcy v. Oshkosh, 144 Wis. 238, 128 N. W. 899, 128 N. W. 1138. Charitable trusts are favored in the law. In absence of a reverter clause the trust…