Legal Opinion
In re Estate of Dickerson
New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division
Decided November 18, 1983PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SKILLMAN, J.S.C.
The issue presented by these two cases, which were consolidated for trial, is whether a public institution of higher education may administer privately funded scholarship trusts which are restricted to students who intend to study for the Protestant Ministry.
The case involves two testamentary bequests to Rutgers University, one by Clarence Garretson, who died in 1938, and the other by Katherine Frey Dickerson, who died in 1946. The Garretson will provided for the creation of a “Clarence Garret-son, Class of 1899 Scholarship” and specified, among other things, that in the award…
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