Keene v. Union School District

The will gives the city a fund to be expended by it for certain educational purposes. In literal exactness, it provides for the city to take and administer the fund. But the city may not administer the fund. It is not within its corporate functions to furnish education. The administration of education belongs solely to the district. But the will manifests clearly that the charity shall serve the inhabitants of the city, and since the city and district coincide in land area, the fund is for the benefit of its inhabitants, to be enjoyed in subjects of higher education which the district may…