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PENNSYLVANIA v. BOARD OF TRUSTS

No. 769.

353 U.S. 230 (1957)

PENNSYLVANIA ET AL. v. BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF CITY TRUSTS OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 29, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas D. McBride, Attorney General, and Lois G. Forer, Deputy Attorney General, for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Abraham L. Freedman and David Berger for the City of Philadelphia et al., and William T. Coleman, Jr., Raymond Pace Alexander and Louis Pollak for Foust et al., appellants.

Owen B. Rhoads for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

The motion to dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction is granted. 28 U. S. C. § 1257 (2). Treating the papers whereon the appeal was taken as a petition for writ of certiorari, 28 U. S. C. § 2103, the petition is granted. 28 U. S. C. § 1257 (3).

Stephen Girard, by a will probated in 1831, left a fund in trust for the erection, maintenance, and operation of a "college." The will provided that the college was to

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