Cameron McNEIL and Justin McNeil, Defendants Below, Appellants,
v.
Henry Slack McNEIL, Jr., Plaintiff Below, Appellee,
John C. Bennett, Jr., Charles E. Mather, III, PNC Bank, N.A. and Wilmington Trust Company, as Trustees U/A with Henry Slack McNeil dated January 2, 1959, Barbara McNeil Jordan, Marjorie McNeil Findlay and Robert Douglass McNeil, Defendants Below, Appellees.
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Submitted: April 9, 2002.
Decided: May 16, 2002.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Thomas R. Hunt, Jr., Esquire (argued), David J. Teklits, Esquire, and Thomas W. Briggs, Jr., Esquire, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, Delaware, for Appellants and Cross Appellants John C. Bennett, Jr., Charles E. Mather, III, PNC Bank, N.A. and Wilmington Trust Company.
Lawrence C. Ashby, Esquire (argued) and Richard I.G. Jones, Jr., Esquire, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, Delaware, for Appellees Barbara McNeil Jordan, Marjorie McNeil Findlay, Robert Douglas McNeil, and their Adult Lineal Descendants.
Grover C. Brown, Esquire (argued), Gordon, Fournaris & Mammarella, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware, Guardian Ad Litem for Unborn Lineal Descendants of Henry S. McNeil, Sr.
Wayne N. Elliott, Esquire (argued), Elizabeth M. McGeever, Esquire, and D. Benjamin Snyder, Esquire, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, Dover, Delaware and John Treitz, Esquire, Ogden, Newell & Welch, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellants Cameron McNeil & Justin McNeil.
James M. Mulligan, Jr., Esquire, Collins J. Seitz, Jr., Esquire and Samuel D. Brickley, II, Esquire, Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP, Wilmington, Delaware and Lawrence T. Hoyle, Jr., Esquire (argued), R. David Walk, Jr., Esquire, and Elliot C. Fertik, Esquire, Hoyle, Morris & Kerr LLP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Ralph A. Jacobs, Esquire, Ralph A. Jacobs & Associates LLC, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Appellant Henry Slack McNeil, Jr.
Before WALSH, HOLLAND, BERGER, STEELE, Justices and HARTNETT, Justice (Retired), constituting the Court En Banc.
Supreme Court of Delaware.
CONSOLIDATED
WALSH, Justice.
This is an appeal from a decision of the Court of Chancery which determined that the trustees of a large inter vivos trust had breached their fiduciary duties by ignoring the interests of a beneficiary. By way of a remedy, the court ordered a make-up distribution to the petitioner, surcharged the trustees, and removed certain of the trustees. The court rejected the beneficiary...
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