Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1888 — Henry George Gets No Bird [ARTICLE]

Henry George Gets No Bird

Vice Chancellor Bird at Trenton, N. Y., decided the case o! the Hatchings hniraagninatHenryGeargF,* bequest for the purpcsecfaiding him in the circulation of his peculiar ideas and theories among the people,was declared ▼oid. The point made by the contestants was that it was neither a charitable, benevolent ®or educational bequest. The court said that George advocated practices with respect to real estate in violation of the lavs of the land. He eonld not sanction the epreading of sucb rentiment The will is therefore broken. ▲ marine accident—when a schooner i oontains more beer than foam. |