Eli Senior Wins Right To Renounce $400,000

A Yale student yesterday won the legal right to renounce a $400,000 trust fund left to him by his father.

A New York court ruled that Eugene F. Suter's "insistence that as a member of a free society, with a freedom of choice he cannot be yoked by this inheritance against his will, is supported by law."

Previously two lawyers who are trustees of Suter's estate had petitioned the court to compel the student to take the money. They said that if he did not accept the inheritance it would destroy the trust and amount to alienation of income in violation of the personal property law.

Suter, 22 years old, said he would not take the money because it was against his moral and political principles.

The court ruling added that the trust would continue and that application could be made later as to its distribution.