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BENZ v. WILMINGTON TRUST CO.

333 A.2d 169 (1975)

Beverly BENZ et al., Respondents below, Appellants, v. WILMINGTON TRUST CO., Petitioner below, Appellee, and Franklin S. Huber et al., Respondents below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided February 20, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Samuel Arsht and Paul P. Welsh, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, for respondents below, appellants.

Rodney M. Layton and Wendell Fenton, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, for petitioner below, appellee.

Melvyn A. Woloshin, Woloshin & Tenenbaum, Wilmington, for respondents below, appellees.

Before DUFFY and McNEILLY, JJ., and WRIGHT, Judge.

DUFFY, Justice:

This appeal brings up for review an order of the Court of Chancery granting summary judgment to adopted grandchildren (appellees) entitling them to participate as beneficiaries in certain trust distributions. Appellants are natural-born grandchildren and beneficiaries of the same trusts.

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The action began as a petition for instructions by the Trustee of six irrevocable inter vivos trusts...

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