MATTER OF ESTATE OF duPONT


376 A.2d 91 (1977)

In the Matter of the ESTATE of William duPONT, Jr.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

Decided April 20, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph H. Geoghegan and Daniel F. Lindley of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, for the executors of the Estate of William duPont, Jr., petitioners below, cross appellants.

Lawrence M. Sullivan and Frederick T. Haase, Jr., Wilmington, for Henry E. I. duPont and Martha Verge duPont, guardians, respondents below, appellants.

Henry N. Herndon, Jr., Wilmington, guardian ad litem.


MARVEL, Chancellor:

William duPont, Jr., then a divorced man resident in Brandywine Hundred, died on December 31, 1965 leaving three sons and two daughters, a number of grandchildren, a will executed on June 19, 1964, and an estate having an estimated adjusted gross value in excess of $33,000,000, an interest in a trust set up in his father's will having terminated on his father's death, and the principal from which decedent...

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