Delaware Court of Chancery, 1925

25 opinions

Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation, a corporation of the State of New York, and By-Products Coke Corporation, a corporation of the State of New York (Intervenor), vs. The Steel and Tube Company of America, a corporation created by and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, Clayton Mark, Herbert H. Springford, Armin A. Schlesinger, Harrison Williams, W. M. L. Fiske, Edward G. Wilmer, Leonard Kennedy, Anson Mark, Charles F. Fawsett, George P. Miller, Frank F. Corby, Addison H. Beale, D. R. McLennan, Harry Coulby, Charles T. Boynton, Clinton S. Lutkins, E. D. Winkworth and C. D. Caldwell, Directors of the said The Steel and Tube Company of America; Clarence Dillon, Roland L. Taylor, Joseph H. Seaman, John W. Horner, Jr., James Dean, R. W. Martin, William A. Phillips, W. M. L. Fiske, William A. Read, Jr., E. J. Bermingham and J. V. Forrestal, co-partners doing business under the firm name and style of Dillon, Read & Company; Clarence Dillon, Armin A. Schlesinger, Herbert H. Springford and Edward G. Wilmer, as Trustees, and The Younstown Sheet & Tube Company, a corporation created by and existing under the laws of the State of Ohio 1925-01-06
In the Matter of the Trusts under the Last Will and Testament of William McCaulley, deceased 1925-01-14
David C. Williams, vs. Thomas T. Rogers 1925-01-21
Commonwealth Title Insurance and Trust Company, a corporation of the State of Pennsylvania, Guardian of Bayard Gray Sasse, a minor, vs. Equitable Trust Company (formerly The Equitable Guarantee and Trust Company), a corporation of the State of Delaware, Trustee for Bayard Gray Sasse, a minor, by appointment of the Chancellor of the State of Delaware, under the will of John C. Sasse, Jr., deceased 1925-02-04
Edwin C. Denny, vs. Wilmington Ice and Coal Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware. In the Matter of the Petition of Diamond Ice and Coal Company, for permission to levy on personal property of defendant company in the custody and possession of a Receiver appointed by the Chancellor 1925-03-02
Oscar P. Riegel, vs. The Only Package Pie, Incorporated, a corporation of the State of Delaware 1925-03-06
Felix Cieniewicz and Anna Cieniewicz, his wife, vs. Aleksander Sliwka and Maryanna Sliwka, his wife, and Stanislaw Boc and Stanislawa Boc, his wife 1925-04-06
Cornelius D. Garretson, vs. Delaware State Fair, Incorporated, a corporation of the State of Delaware 1925-05-06
Helen G. Wilson, Guardian of Margaret Gregg Wilson, vs. Wilmington Trust Company, Trustee by appointment of the Chancellor of Delaware, under the will of James Wilson, deceased 1925-05-22
The Mayor and Council of Wilmington, a Municipal Corporation of the State of Delaware, vs. Etta H. Turk 1925-05-27
George A. Skinner, vs. Educational Pictures Securities Corporation, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Earle W. Hammons, Bruno Weyers, A. S. Kirkpatrick, M. Plant and Frederick Blackmore 1925-06-18
Mathias H. Baker, vs. Bankers Mortgage Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Alfred Sohland and Dora Sohland, and the Harrisburg Corporation, a corporation of the State of Delaware, and Samuel Fishman 1925-06-22
William H. Blackstone, vs. Lilburne Chandler, personally, as Executor and Trustee of the Last Will and Testament of Mary Francis Calhoun, deceased, and as Executor of Julia A. Newton, deceased, and Layton Home For Aged Colored Persons, a corporation of the State of Delaware 1925-07-15
Thomas E. Jefferis, vs. William D. Mullen Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware 1925-07-21
Washington Irving Brockson, vs. James E. Brockson 1925-07-22
Sussex Investment Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, vs. John H. Clendaniel 1925-07-22
George Lodge, Executor of the Last Will and Testament of Mary B. Edwards, deceased, vs. Annie E. Grubb, Georgeanna Bird, Jennie Bird, Herbert B. Rennie, Administrator of Emma L. Rennie, deceased, Florence M. Alexander, Carrick Lloyd, Margaret Lloyd, Eleanor Lloyd, Marion Lloyd, Tillie Lloyd, Beulah L. Bromall, Elmer G. Dutton, Administrator c. t. a. of Charlotte Beeson, Annie L. Parish, Emma Palmer, Lavinia Clair, also known as Mary L. Clair, Mary Woolfrey, Florence Sydney, Phoebe Mousley, Martha Booth, formerly Martha Forwood, J. Leonard Lloyd and Samuel Lloyd 1925-07-22
William D. Roberts and David M. Armour, members of The United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Railway Shop Laborers, in behalf of themselves and also in behalf of such other members of said Brotherhood as may desire to join as complainants herein, and Max Fickert and Joseph Greek, Intervenors, vs. Leo I. Kennedy, William T. Haines, Clyde A. Riegel, John T. Redmon, Clyde L. Hawkins, James F. Owen, Frank B. Collier, Pearl D. Ballinger, A. W. Witkop, Charles B. OFlanagan, William H. Kane, William C. Weaver, Sr., Daniel Redmon and Charles H. Mills 1925-07-29
Michael J. Leamy, Cecelia Matthews, Andrew Fitzsimmons, and Elizabeth P. Keena, vs. Sinaloa Exploration and Development Company, James Drury, William T. Barry, Albert E. Lister, John T. Bradley and Anna Okeefe 1925-08-03
The Central National Bank of Philadelphia, a corporation under the laws of the United States of America, vs. Bateman & Companies, Incorporated, a corporation of the State of Delaware. In the Matter of the Claim of The Equitable Trust Company of New York, Trustee under a mortgage given to secure bonds of Bateman & Companies, Incorporated 1925-10-28
Bernard Brown and Sarah Brown, his wife, vs. Henry B. Davis 1925-11-25
William R. Henderson, Albert R. Budd, Walter J. Wilson and Floyd B. Lockhardt, and others, Intervenors, vs. Plymouth Oil Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, Michael L. Benedum, Sarah N. Benedum, Joseph C. Trees, Trees Development Company, Limited, Levi Smith, Jerome G. Farquhar, William E. Huston, Edward C. Stearns, Thomas R. Cowell, Walter S. Hallanan, Foster B. Parriott, Addison F. Holliday, Jr., Charles Adams, H. B. Davenport, John Laing, John M. Holliday, Ray V. Hennen, John S. Hanlon, Addison B. Dally, Jr., Ovid D. Robinson, Ellsworth D. Robinson, J. L. Kirkland, H. D. McCracken, M. E. Davis, Arthur G. Flores, D. A. McCaskey, C. H. Huston, Anne A. Adams, Thomas R. Cowell, Betty Cowell and Niles W. Bottomfield 1925-12-04
Anna E. Pierce, Executrix of the Last Will and Testament of Sarah E. Baggs, deceased, vs. Benjamin Franklin Collins, Kate F. Primrose, Benjamin C. Collins, William T. Collins, William N. Jarvis, Wilhelmina W. Faries, Hilda W. Thompson and Flora W. Boggs 1925-12-23
In the Matter of the Assignment of The Trexler Company of America to the Delaware Trust Company for the benefit of creditors. In the Matter of Exceptions to the claim of Harry E. Kohn, Trustee in Liquidation of George A. Huhn, George A. Huhn, Jr., W. H. T. Huhn and John Bell Huhn, co-partners, trading as George A. Huhn and Sons, and of George A. Huhn, individually 1925-12-23
Wilmington Trust Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, Administrator c. t. a. of Arthur E. Houlehan, deceased, vs. Ruby E. Houlehan, Wilmington Trust Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Guardian by appointment of the Orphans Court of Louise E. Houlehan, Thomas J. Houlehan, Frances E. Houlehan, Fred S. Houlehan, Mary C. Houlehan, Mabel C. Davis and Ruth H. Merell 1925-12-23