BANKERS TRUST COMPANY v. DUFFY


295 A.2d 725 (1972)

BANKERS TRUST COMPANY, as sole surviving Trustee under Trust Agreements of Helena S. Corcoran dated December 8, 1955, October 21, 1957 and December 10, 1959, et al., Petitioners Below, Appellants, v. Mary Louise DUFFY et al., Respondents Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

July 26, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Samuel Arsht and Thomas D. Henderer, of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, and A. Chauncey Newlin, of White & Case, New York City, for appellants.

William S. Potter, Charles S. Crompton, Jr., and Michael D. Goldman, of Potter Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, for Mary Louise Duffy.

WOLCOTT, Chief Justice, and CAREY and HERRMANN, Associate Justices, sitting.


WOLCOTT, Chief Justice:

This is an appeal from an Order of the Vice Chancellor allowing in part and denying in part a request for allowance of counsel fees to out-of-state and local counsel representing an accounting trustee.

Involved are three inter vivos trusts created respectively in 1955, 1957 and 1959. Initially, each of the trusts had individual trustees but over the years, by reason of attrition, the appellant, Bankers Trust Company, is now the sole...

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