Legal Opinion

Girard Estate

Pennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County

Decided April 5, 1954No. 10Published

1Opinion of the Court

Bolger, J.,

— On December 1, 1953, the board of directors of city trusts charged with the administration of the estate of Stephen Girard, deceased, a charitable trust, presented a petition for authority under the provisions of section 2(5-/) of the Revised Price Act of June 7, 1917, P. L. 388, 20 PS §1564, and section 963 of the Fidu*482ciaries Act of April 18, 1949, P. L. 512, 20 PS §§320-963, to deed to the City of Philadelphia by base or conditional fee, subject to reversion to the board, 3% acres of ground bounded by Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Porter and Shunk Streets in the forty-eighth…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Slegel v. LauerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1892
  2. Bruker v. Carlisle BoroughSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1954
  3. Drake v. CraneSupreme Court of Missouri · 1895
  4. United States v. BenedictCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1922
  5. Calhoun v. HaysSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1944

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