MISS. CHILDREN'S HOME SOC. v. JACKSON

No. 40438.

230 Miss. 546 (1957)

93 So.2d 483

MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY v. CITY OF JACKSON, et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 18, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barnett, Jones & Montgomery, Creekmore & Beacham, Jackson, for appellant.

George W. Haynes, Utica; Hugh B. Gillespie, Jr., Raymond, for appellees, Mrs. Ethel Richardson Gale, Mrs. Mary Gale Page and Mrs. B.R. Joel, Jr.

Wells, Thomas & Wells, Jackson, for appellee, Mrs. Mary G. Cline.

E.W. Stennett, W.T. Neely, Jackson, for appellee, City of Jackson.


ETHRIDGE, J.

We are concerned here with a charitable trust where the donor declares how the gift shall be used in the event of certain conditions terminating the charitable use to which he, in the first instance, provided that it should be devoted. The issue is whether the first taker, under the equitable doctrine of deviation from administrative requirements because of changed circumstances, should be permitted to sell...

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