WOMEN'S HOMEO. HOSPITAL OF PHILA CASE


393 Pa. 313 (1958)

Women's Homoeopathic Hospital of Philadelphia Case.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 3, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Price, with him George J. Hauptfuhrer, Jr., Stanhope S. Browne, and Barnes, Dechert, Price, Myers & Rhoads, for Preston Maternity Hospital, appellant.

Edward M. David, with him Walter Biddle Saul, Gerald K. Burns, and Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul, for St. Luke's and Children's Medical Center of Philadelphia, appellant.

William Carson Bodine, with him Pepper, Bodine, Frick, Scheetz & Hamilton, for Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, appellee.

John Mulford, with him Drinker, Biddle & Reath, for Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, appellee.

Richard W. Ledwith, with him Frank Rogers Donahue, Jr., and MacCoy, Evans & Lewis, for Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia, appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, ARNOLD, JONES and COHEN, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JONES, June 3, 1958:

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...

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