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WILMINGTON TRUST CO. v. WRIGHT

Civ. A. No. 235.

90 A.2d 480 (1952)

WILMINGTON TRUST CO. v. WRIGHT et al.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

July 16, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Caleb S. Layton (of Richards, Layton & Finger), Wilmington, for plaintiff.

Rodney Layton, Wilmington, for defendant Wilmington Trust Co., executor of estate of Ernest B. Wright.

Hugh M. Morris (of Morris, Steel, Nichols & Arsht), Wilmington, for Wilmington Trust Co., and Elizabeth J. Wright, executors of estate of J. Pilling Wright.

Howard L. Williams (of Hering, Morris, James & Hitchens), Wilmington, for individual defendants.

SEITZ, Chancellor.

I am concerned with the right of one seeking contribution to pursue assets into the hands of a distributee of an estate.

Ernest B. Wright died November 16, 1934 leaving a will which was probated before the Register of Wills for New Castle County. Defendant, Wilmington Trust Company, qualified as Executor. Under the will of Ernest B. Wright certain specific bequests were to be made, and the residue of the estate was to be transferred to plaintiff...

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