Women's Homoeopathic Hospital of Philadelphia Case

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Jones,

A petition for the dissolution of the Women’s Homoeopathic Hospital of Philadelphia was filed in the Court of Common Pleas No. 4 of Philadelphia County. As an incident of the corporation’s termination, the court would be called upon to distribute the hospital’s restricted charitable funds which represented an accumulation of some sixty separate gifts and aggregated approximately $350,000. The court appointed two co-masters for the purpose of marshalling the assets, taking testimony, hearing claims and recommending to the court an award cy pres of the…