U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern West Virginia September 3, 1908, No. 583 (Miller v. Ahrens)

DAYTON, District Judge

(after stating the facts as above). In my opinion heretofore filed in this case passing upon the demurrer to the original bill (150 Fed. 644) I held that the devise to Woods, trustee, for the benefit of the First Spiritualist Church of Baltimore, a Maryland corporation, assuming it to be a religious organization, was absolutely void as being contrary to the public policy