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JACKSON v. RIGGS NATIONAL BANK OF WASHINGTON, D.C.

314 A.2d 178 (1973)

Nancy W. JACKSON et al., Respondents Below, Appellants, and Cross Appellees, v. The RIGGS NATIONAL BANK OF WASHINGTON, D.C. and Edward H. Porter, Jr., Trustees under the Will of Willard Saulsbury, Petitioners Below, Appellees, and Cross Appellees, and Ruth Anna Zimmer et al., Respondents Below, Appellees and Cross Appellants.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

November 27, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul R. Reed, Georgetown, for James H. Ponder.

Arthur L. Rocklin, of Rocklin & Rocklin, Baltimore, for Mary Lou Ponder Goembel.

Rodney M. Layton, of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, for The Riggs National Bank of Washington, D.C. and Edward H. Porter, Jr., Trustees.

Johannes R. Krahmer, of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, for Nancy W. Jackson, Executrix of Estate of William McDowell Ponder and others.

William S. Potter and Charles S. Crompton, Jr., of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, for Ruth Anna Zimmer and others.

Andrew G. T. Moore, II, of Killoran & Van Brunt, Wilmington, for James W. Ponder, III and others.

Mason E. Turner, Jr., of Prickett, Ward, Burt & Sanders, Wilmington, for Wayne N. Elliott, Guardian Ad Litem for Susan M. Higel.

Before HERRMANN, C. J., and CHRISTIE and WALSH, Judges.

HERRMANN, Chief Justice:

This appeal is from rulings by the Chancery Court upon the petition of testamentary trustees for instructions as to the proper distribution of the trust corpus.

I.

The case involves the Will of the late Senator Willard Saulsbury, executed in 1926. The basic estate plan provided for charitable gifts, a devise of certain farmland, and a life interest in the residue to the Testator's widow. The remainder was left to a residuary...

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