Binenstock Trust

Burke, J.,

On March 22, 1962,1 entered a decree approving the sale of 325 shares (total outstanding) of the stock of J. A. Dougherty Sons, Inc., Distillers, to Publicker Industries, Inc., for $1,411,000, which was the higher of two sealed bids submitted in accordance with the specifications prescribed in my interlocutory decree of March 15, 1962.

Certain of the parties in interest filed exceptions to the final decree, and a petition to reopen the hearings before me was submitted to the court en banc on behalf of Theodora B. Jacobs, beneficiary and one of the trustees, to afford petitioner an…