SECURITY TRUST CO. v. COOLING


76 A.2d 1 (1950)

SECURITY TRUST CO. v. COOLING et al.

Court of Chancery of Delaware.

October 23, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Reese Hitchens, of Hering, Morris, James & Hitchens, Wilmington, for Security Trust Co., trustee, the plaintiff.

W. Thomas Knowles, Wilmington, for Emily R. Cooling, guardian for Alice Ball Cooling, a minor.

Clement C. Wood, Wilmington, for Samuel Cooling and Marjorie Ann Cooling Gladding.

Bayard W. Allmond, Wilmington, for Emily R. Cooling.

Donald W. Booker, Wilmington, for Samuel Cooling and Security Trust Company, surviving executors of the will of Agnes S. Cooling, deceased, and Security Trust Co., executor of Severson B. Cooling, Jr., deceased.


HARRINGTON, Chancellor.

Security Trust Company, the plaintiff trustee, seeks a further construction of the will of Severson B. Cooling, deceased. Other questions under the same instrument were before this court in 28 Del.Ch. 303, 42 A.2d 784.

The questions now raised are caused by the death of Severson B. Cooling, 3d, one of the two children of Severson B. Cooling, Jr., a deceased son of the testator. The Sixth and Ninth...

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