1. Home
  2. Browse Decisions
  3. Pa.
  4. 4 Pa.
  5. 4 Pa. D. & C. 2d 671 (1955)
 

GIRARD ESTATE

No. 10.

4 Pa. D. & C. 2d 671 (1955)

Girard Estate

Common Pleas Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

July 29, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William T. Coleman, Jr., and Raymond Pace Alexander, for exceptants, William Ashe Foust and Robert Felder.

Herbert B. Cohen, Attorney General, and Lois G. Forer, Deputy Attorney General, for exceptant, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Abraham L. Freedman, City Solicitor, and Murray L. Schwartz, Deputy City Solicitor, for exceptant, City of Philadelphia.

James K. Baker, Sidney Schulman, Leon I. Mesirov and Lewis M. Stevens, for Philadelphia Fellowship Commission, amicus curiae.

Joseph P. Gaffney, for Board of Directors of City Trusts, contra.

James M. Marsh, court-appointed amicus curiae.

Before: KLEIN, P. J., BOLGER, HUNTER, LEFEVER, SAYLOR and SHOYER, JJ.

Re: Application of William Ashe Foust

BOLGER, J., Hearing Judge, July 29, 1955.

William Ashe Foust, age 8, hereinafter called the applicant, a Negro orphan boy residing in Philadelphia, by his mother, has filed a petition in this court seeking a review of the resolution of the Board of Directors of City Trusts, trustee of the will of Stephen Girard, hereinafter called the Board, in dismissing his application for admission to Girard College, hereinafter...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases