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GREENFIELD ESTATE

457 Pa. 114 (1974)

Greenfield Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

July 1, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Landis, with him Grahame P. Richards, Jr., George B. Clothier, Robert Louis Freedman, Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippel and Dechert, Price & Rhoads, for appellant.

Duffield Ashmead, III, with him William C. Bullitt, and Drinker, Biddle & Reath, for appellees.

S. Laurence Shaiman, for Elizabeth M. Greenfield et al., executors, appellees.

D. Arthur Magaziner, for guardian-trustee ad litem.

James W. Sutton, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, and Israel Packel, Attorney General, for Commonwealth, Parens Patriae.

Before JONES, C.J., EAGEN O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX and MANDERINO, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE POMEROY, July 1, 1974:

This appeal raises a question of interpretation of the will of the late Albert M. Greenfield insofar as it involves disposition of a substantial portion of a valuable collection of art, assembled by Mr. Greenfield during his lifetime. The collection, formed with the assistance of Mrs. Greenfield, consists of sixty-six paintings and other art objects, including works by Chagall...

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