Brown v. Memorial National Home Foundation
162 Cal. App. 2d 513 ·
California Court of Appeal · Filed
Published · citable
Cited by 1
Holding
The court held that a charitable corporation, once it accepts assets dedicated to a specific charitable purpose, becomes a trustee of those assets and cannot lawfully amend its charter to divert them to different purposes; such an attempt constitutes an abuse and abandonment of the trust warranting the trustee's removal.
Statutes construed
- CCP § 564
- CIV § 2232
- CORP § 4691
Cited by (1)
- LOWELL T. PATTON et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. MARK C. SHERWOOD et al., Defendants and Respondents (2007) 152 Cal. App. 4th 339