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GIRARD COLLEGE TRUSTEESHIP

391 Pa. 434 (1958)

Girard College Trusteeship.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 24, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abraham L. Freedman, Special Counsel, and David Berger, City Solicitor, with them David E. Pinsky and Jacob J. Siegal, Assistant City Solicitors, for appellant, City of Philadelphia.

Thomas D. McBride, Attorney General, with him Lois G. Forer, Deputy Attorney General, for appellant, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

William T. Coleman, Jr. and Raymond Pace Alexander, with them Louis H. Pollak, for applicants, appellants.

Arthur Littleton, with him Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, for appellees, substituted trustees.

C. Brewster Rhoads, for Girard College Alumni, Amicus Curiae.

Joseph P. Gaffney, for City of Philadelphia, trustee under will of Stephen Girard, deceased, acting by the Board of Directors of City Trusts.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, CHIDSEY, MUSMANNO and JONES, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JONES, January 24, 1958:

When this matter was here before, we affirmed the action of the Orphans' Court of Philadelphia County denying admission to Girard College to William Ashe Foust and Robert Felder, poor male Negro orphans, for the reason that the will of Stephen Girard, the founder and endower of the College, expressly restricts admission to "poor male white orphans": see Girard Will Case, 386 Pa. 548

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