Legal Opinion

Wanamaker Estate

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 20, 1950No. Appeals, 200 and 201PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Horace Stern,

We are concerned in this ease with circumstances which require the application of the doctrine of cy pres.

The 17th paragraph of the will of John Wanamaker, who died in 1922, provided as follows: “I give and bequeath unto the Trustees of the General Assembly, of the Presbyterian Church, in the United States of America, In Trust, the following sums of money. Two Hundred Thousand Dollars, for the use of Bethany Collegiate Presbyterian Church, of the City of Philadelphia. .... Ten Thousand Dollars, for the use of Bethany Dispensary, connected with said Church.…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. City of Philadelphia v. Heirs of GirardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1863
  2. Wilkey's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1939

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Stephen Smith Home for the Aged, Inc. v. Mercy Douglass Center, Inc. (In Re Stephen Smith Home for the Aged, Inc.)District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1987
  2. Will of PorterSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
  3. Balch EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County · 1960
  4. Brooke EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Montgomery County · 1968
  5. Dobbins EstatePennsylvania Orphans' Court, Philadelphia County · 1951

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