# Dead funny legacy

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1997/10/11/dead-funny-legacy/
- Published: 1997-10-11T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

One of Smee and Ford’s more amusing stories of strange-but-true charitable bequests
hit the newspapers recently.
Income from a cash bequest left to Jesus Christ should
he make a Second Coming will now be handed over to the Crown. The bequest was made
by Ernest Digweed who stipulated that the income from his investments should be 
paid to the Crown after 21 years. Those 21 years are now up, and the Second Coming
has not occurred.

Apparently, the executors of the Will have three volumes of files containing the
many claims to the bequest. One of the most memorable was the American door-to-door
salesman who felt he had a claim to the money since every time he knocked on someone’s
door he was met by the phrase “Jesus Christ, not you again!”

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