Supreme Court of Pennsylvania May 11, 1874 (Earp's Appeal)

The opinion of the court was delivered, May 11th 1874, by

Agnew, C. J.

Since the return to the former doctrine of trusts, in Barnett’s Appeal, 10 Wright 392, it has been our endeavor to maintain trusts upon their true foundation, as a means of preserving the dominion of the donor over his own property for his reasonable purposes, unless where a clear public policy strikes down the trust as no