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BANK OF DELAWARE v. HARGRAVES

242 A.2d 472 (1968)

BANK OF DELAWARE, a Delaware Corporation, Executor of the Estate of Mary T. Bringhurst, Plaintiff, v. Nancy Sellers HARGRAVES and Edith Claypool Sellers Farnum, Defendants.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

May 3, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, for plaintiff.

Alexander L. Nichols, Johannes R. Krahmer, and Adrienne Arsht of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, and Francis H. Scheetz, and Francis M. Richards, Jr. of Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant Nancy Sellers Hargraves.

Robert H. Richards, Jr., of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, and H. Ober Hess and Benjamin R. Nielson of Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant Edith Claypool Sellers Farnum.

MARVEL, Vice Chancellor:

Mary T. Bringhurst, owner of Rockwood Manor, an ancestral estate of more than one hundred and fifty acres situate in Brandy-wine Hundred, died on August 31, 1965, at the age of over one hundred years. She died testate, bequeathing and devising her entire estate to members of her family, including real estate appraised for estate tax purposes at $647,000. By the use of residuary clauses for both her real estate and personalty, she sought to...

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