In Re Estate of Bartol

OPINION BY

Judge LEAVITT.

This is an appeal by Norman F. Ness and Martin A. Pomerantz (Appellants) from an order of the Orphans’ Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County (trial court). In its order, the trial court sustained a preliminary objection of the University of Delaware-Bartol Research Institute, The Franklin Institute, Bartol Research Foundation 1 and the University of Delaware (collectively Respondents) that Appellants lacked standing to initiate an action against Respondents under Section 5793(a) of the Nonprofit Corporation Law of 1988, 15 Pa.C.S. §…