Johnson v. United States

ATWELL, District Judge.

Willis Johnson, a public spirited pioneer and successful cattleman of West Texas, died some years ago at San Angelo. His widow, the plaintiff, in honoring his memory, and to benefit the community in which he resided, set aside a trust fund of an hundred thousand dollars, the proceeds of which were to be used by a certain board, for “either civic, charitable, or benevolent” purposes. The trustee accepted, and out. of the earnings of the funds, the Board, which was also provided for in the trust, erected across the Concho river, near the center of the city, a reinforced…