COLTON v. WADE


95 A.2d 840 (1953)

COLTON et al. v. WADE.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

April 9, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis L. Redding, of Wilmington, for plaintiffs.

H. Albert Young, of Young & Wood, Wilmington, for defendant.


SEITZ, Chancellor.

Plaintiffs seek to impress a constructive trust upon the home real estate owned by the defendant and her husband as tenants by the entirety until August 30, 1950 when the defendant shot and killed him. Plaintiffs are the administrator and the only heirs at law and next of kin of the deceased. In denying defendant's motions to dismiss and for summary judgment this court has ruled that such a trust will be impressed where one tenant by the entirety...

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