In re the Probate of the Last Will & Testament & Codicil of Davis

Ketcham, S.

While the law of charitable uses and their limitations has been reared into a vast structure of learning, it remains a monument of historical and academic worth rather than a guide needed for the disposition of present cases. It is a memorial and mortuary, more a shrine for meditation than a landmark for navigation.

Upon the fabric of this erudition, statutory and judicial endeavor has wrought a modern system which, without assumption, may be declared so plain that the wayfaring man need not err therein.

Gifts for a charitable use must prevail whenever their purpose and their object…