IN RE BARNES FOUNDATION


453 Pa.Super. 436 (1996)

684 A.2d 123

In re the BARNES FOUNDATION, a Corporation. Appeal of BARNES FOUNDATION and its Trustees, Appellants. ESTATE OF Violette DE MAZIA, Deceased. Appeal of BARNES FOUNDATION and its Trustees, Appellants.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed September 9, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce W. Kauffman, Philadelphia, for appellants.

Arthur L. Jenkins, Jr., Norristown, for "Students" of the Barnes Foundation, participating party.

Marvin Garfinkel, Philadelphia, for de Mazia Trust, participating party.

Before CAVANAUGH, KELLY and OLSZEWSKI, JJ.


KELLY, Judge.

This appeal is brought from an Order of the Orphans' Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, refusing to accept a settlement proposed by appellant, The Barnes Foundation, and appellees, the Trustees of The de Mazia Trust. We reverse.

The full procedural history is extensive but nonetheless relevant to an understanding of the relationship between these parties. In...

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