MAN REFUSES FORTUNE
DECISION UPHELD BY COURT
(Rec. 11 pan.) NEW YORK, May 19. A Court today upheld the right of Eugene F. Suter, aged 22, a Yale University student, to reject a 400,000 dollars (£145,100) fortune left to him by his father.
He said acceptance of the bequest would “violate his moral and political principles.” A surrogate, Mr William Collins, said that Suter’s insistence that as a member of a free society with a freedom of choice,, he could not be yoked With this inheritance against his will, was supported by law. His decision quoted old-time philosophers as well as the law. The lawyers named as trustees of the estate had petitioned the Surrogates Court to compel Suter to accept the fortune. They said, that if he did not, it would destroy the trust. The surrogate noted that institutions had been known to spurn gifts they deemed hostile to their purposes. An individual had the same right, he said.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27664, 21 May 1955, Page 7
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