Between: Attorney-General - Appellant
And: National Provincial and Union Bank of England and Ors - Respondents

Judges: Viscount Cave LC
Viscount Haldane
Viscount Finlay
Lord Atkinson

Lord Sumner

Subject References:
CHARITY
'Patriotic purposes or objects'
Validity
Discretion of Trustees

Judgment date: 17 December 1923

Judgment by:
Lord Sumner

My Lords, I concur.

Order of the Court of Appeal affirmed, and appeal dismissed. By consent, the costs of the appellant and respondents, the National Provincial and Union Bank of England, Ld., to be paid out of the capital of one-fifth of the testator's residuary estate, the subject of the appeal, as between solicitor and client.

Lords' Journals, Dec. 17, 1923.