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COLEMAN ESTATE

456 Pa. 163 (1974)

Coleman Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 25, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Cohen, Harry Lore, and Cohen and Lore, for appellant.

Richard J. Orloski, Deputy Attorney General, with him Catherine G. Barone, Assistant Attorney General, W. William Anderson, Deputy Attorney General, and J. Shane Creamer, Attorney General, for Commonwealth, appellant.

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

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, March 25, 1974:

The single, narrow issue presented by this appeal1 is whether a settlor may impose upon our courts the task of monitoring his wish that no person serve as an individual trustee of an irrevocable inter vivos charitable trust, if that person is married to a non-Protestant. We conclude that settlor's partiality for the religious persuasion of the trustees's spouses is irrelevant both to the...

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