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SUMMA CORP. v. TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC.

540 A.2d 403 (1988)

SUMMA CORPORATION and William R. Lummis, Delaware Ancillary Administrator of the Estate of Howard R. Hughes, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC., Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: April 4, 1988.

Rehearing Denied May 5, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew B. Kirkpatrick, Jr. (argued), Martin P. Tully, Thomas Reed Hunt, Jr., and Edmond D. Johnson, of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, David A. Jenkins, of Lassen, Smith, Katzenstein & Furlow, Wilmington, for appellants.

Louis J. Finger and Allen M. Terrell, Jr., of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, William E. Hegarty (argued), Dudley B. Tenney, Marshall Cox, Michael P. Tierney, and Dierdre A. Burgman, of Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, New York City, of counsel, for appellee.

Before CHRISTIE, C.J., and HORSEY and MOORE, JJ.

MOORE, Justice.

This accounting action has consumed more than twenty-five years of litigation between Trans World Airlines, Inc. ("TWA"), and the late Howard R. Hughes and his wholly owned enterprise, Hughes Tool Company ("Toolco").1 In length of time, although certainly not in other respects, it may almost seem reminiscent of Jarndyce and Jarndyce.2...

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