Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Board of Directors of City Trusts of the City of Philadelphia

• Decision Date: 30 June 1958
• Docket Number: No. 947,947
• Citation: 357 U.S. 570,2 L.Ed.2d 1546,78 S.Ct. 1383
• Parties: COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, City of Philadelphia, Richardson Dilworth, Mayor of the City of Philadelphia, et al., appellants, v. The BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF CITY TRUSTS OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA and Thirteen Substituted Trustees of the Estate of Stephen Girard, Deceased
• Court: U.S. Supreme Court

357 U.S. 570

78 S.Ct. 1383

2 L.Ed.2d 1546

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, City of Philadelphia, Richardson Dilworth, Mayor of the City of Philadelphia, et al., appellants,

v The BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF CITY TRUSTS OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA and Thirteen SubstitutedTrustees of the Estate of Stephen Girard, Deceased.

No. 947.

Supreme Court of the United States

June 30, 1958

Rehearing Denied Oct. 13, 1958.

See 79 S.Ct. 14.

Mr. Thomas D. McBride, Atty.Gen. and Lois G. Forer, Deputy Atty.Gen., for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Messrs. Abraham L. Freedman and David Berger, for appellantsCity of Philadelphia and others.

Messrs. William T. Coleman, Jr., Raymond Pace Alexander and Louis H. Pollak, for appellants Foust and others.

Mr. Arthur Littleton, for appellees Substituted Trustees.

PER CURIAM.

The motion to dismiss is granted and the appeal is dismissed.Treating the papers whereon the appeal was taken as a petition for writ...