An appellate court in New York has affirmed a Surrogate Court decision that a donor making a charitable bequest from her living trust intended to benefit a specific Catholic school that had been closed for several years and did not show a general charitable intent which would justify invoking the cy pres doctrine to divert the gift to the Catholic Diocese. The Court, by a vote of 4-1, has affirmed a Surrogate Court decision dividing the gift between two other residuary beneficiaries of the trust. Margaret E. Gurney died in 2015, leaving the residue of her estate 40% to the Fox Memorial Hospital, 40% to Hartwick College, and 20% to St. Mary’s Roman Catholic School, which had closed in 2011...