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YANCEY v. NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY

251 A.2d 561 (1969)

Richard B. YANCEY, individually and as Executor, Trustee, Administrator c. t. a. of the Estate of Philo B. Yancey, deceased, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, Ltd., a Canadian corporation, Raymond C. Dougherty, Jean Yancey Paterson, individually and as Executors and Trustees of the Last Will and Testament of Philo B. Yancey, and E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company, a Delaware corporation, Defendants Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

March 6, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Bailey, Jr., of Bayard, Brill & Handelman, Wilmington, for appellant.

Richard L. McMahon, of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, for National Trust Co., Ltd., Raymond C. Dougherty, and Jean Yancey Paterson, appellees.

Henry W. Bryan, Wilmington, for E. I. duPont de Nemours and Co., appellee.

WOLCOTT, C. J., and CAREY, J., and QUILLEN, Judge, sitting.

WOLCOTT, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff, Richard B. Yancey, appeals from an order of the Court of Chancery quashing the sequestration of common stock of the duPont Company.

The facts are, as alleged by the plaintiff, that Philo B. Yancey died a resident of Montreal, Canada. His will, establishing testamentary trusts, was admitted to probate in the Province of Quebec, Canada, in 1942.

Richard B. Yancey, National...

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