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CHICHESTER v. WILMINGTON TRUST CO.

377 A.2d 11 (1977)

Richard D. CHICHESTER, Sarah C. Galloway, Ridgely B. Chichester, Anne K. Aquadro, and Frederick E. Klutey, Jr., Respondents below, Appellants, v. WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Trustee under Trust Agreement with Philip D. Laird, dated April 23, 1932, Wilmington Trust Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Trustee under the Will of Philip D. Laird, deceased, dated February 24, 1944, Wilmington Trust Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Executor of the Estate of Lydia C. Laird, deceased, under Will dated February 27, 1967, Petitioners below, Appellees, and Gordon C. Keys, and Mary Cook Stewart Brusninghan, Respondents below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided July 29, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas P. Sweeney, Richard G. Elliott, Jr. and Richard G. Bacon, of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, for respondents below, appellants.

William S. Potter, of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, for petitioners below, appellees.

Johannes R. Krahmer and David Ley Hamilton, of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, for respondents below, appellees.

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

McNEILLY, Justice.

In this appeal from the Court of Chancery, we are asked to decide, under our adoption and inheritance laws, whether adult adoptees may take by right of representation through adoptive parents (there being no question of the right to take from adoptive parents). The Vice-Chancellor decided in the affirmative, Wilmington Trust Company v. Chichester, Del.Ch., 369 A.2d 701

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