TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC. v. HUGHES


185 A.2d 762 (1962)

TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC., Plaintiff, v. Howard R. HUGHES and Hughes Tool Company, Defendants, and The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Irving Trust Company, Dillon, Read & Co., Inc., James F. Oates, Jr., Harry C. Hagerty, Ben-Fleming Sessel, Ernest R. Breech and Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr., Added Defendants.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

Rehearing Denied October 24, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Tunnell, Jr., and George T. Coulson of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, and Chester C. Davis, New York City, for defendant Hughes Tool Co.

Daniel L. Herrmann of Herrmann, Bayard, Brill & Gallagher, Wilmington, and Marvin Schwartz and John P. Allee, of Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, appearing specially for additional defendant Ernest R. Breech.


MARVEL, Vice Chancellor.

In response to the complaint filed herein by Trans World Airlines, Inc., the defendant Hughes Tool Company has filed an answer in which it asserts affirmative claims against Trans World Airlines and additional parties, including one Ernest R. Breech, such additional parties having been brought into the case on an ex parte application of the responding pleader. Upon the filing of such pleading and the bringing in of such additional parties...

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