duPONT v. DELAWARE TRUST COMPANY


369 A.2d 699 (1976)

W. Henry duPONT, Plaintiff, v. DELAWARE TRUST COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, and Hopeton Holding Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants. Jean Ellen duPont McConnell et al., Intervenor-Defendants.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

Decided September 30, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell J. Willard, Jr., Wilmington, and Marvin Comisky, Morris L. Weisberg and Alan C. Gershenson of Blank, Rome, Klaus & Comisky, Philadelphia, for plaintiff.

William S. Potter, Charles S. Crompton, Jr., and Michael D. Goldman of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, for defendants Delaware Trust Co. and Hopeton Holding Corp. and for intervening defendants, Jean Ellen duPont McConnell, Evelyn duPont Donaldson, John E. duPont, and William duPont, III.

V. R. Shackleford, Jr., Orange, for intervening defendant Marion duPont Scott.


ON REARGUMENT

MARVEL, Chancellor:

Although the main thrust of the complaint herein as well as of the April 16, 19741 opinion of the Supreme Court of Delaware (the mandate of which directed the reversal of the order of this Court which because of the exigencies of the problems brought about by the death of William duPont in 1928, viewed in the light of the then stricture on the right...

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