TRUSTS-CHARITIES-ERECTION OF MONUMENT

Authors

J. Barrett, University of Michigan Law School

Abstract

Testatrix directed "that my executors . . . erect in the courthouse park at Madera, California, a granite tower . . . to contain a carillon . . . to be placed in the park at a reasonable cost . . . with an inscription . . . to be cut in a conspicuous place on the granite . . . to read as follows: 'Dedicated to the memory of all those . . . who strove to make Madera and Madera County all that it is. John L. Butin, M.D. Mary Ryerson Butin, M.D.'" Held, the devise constituted a charitable gift. In re Butin, (Cal. 1947) 183 P. (2d) 304.

Recommended Citation

J. Barrett, TRUSTS-CHARITIES-ERECTION OF MONUMENT, 46 Mich. L. Rev. 705 (1948).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol46/iss5/25