HUGHES v. TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC.


336 A.2d 572 (1975)

Howard R. HUGHES and Hughes Tool Company, Defendants below, Appellants, v. TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC., Plaintiff below, Appellee, and The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States et al., Certain Additional Defendants below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided February 26, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Tyler Coulson, of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, and Chester C. Davis and Maxwell E. Cox, of Davis & Cox, New York City, for defendants below, appellants.

Louis J. Finger, of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, and Dudley B. Tenney, Paul W. Williams, Marshall Cox and Michael P. Tierney, of Cahill Gordon & Reindel, New York City, for plaintiff below, appellee.

Leroy A. Brill, of Bayard, Brill & Handelman, Wilmington, and Marvin Schwartz, of Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, for Ernest R. Breech, additional defendant below, appellee.

William Prickett, of Prickett, Ward, Burt & Sanders, Wilmington, and John R. Hupper and Andrew P. Tashman, of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, for certain other additional defendants below, appellees.

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


DUFFY, Justice:

This appeal brings up for review an order of the Court of Chancery denying a motion to dismiss the complaint and granting motions to dismiss certain counterclaims.

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The case involves a contest, long in litigation, between Howard R. Hughes and Hughes Tool Company (Toolco) (defendants), on the one side, and Trans World Airlines, Inc., (plaintiff), on the other.1

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