Delaware Court of Chancery, 1951

33 opinions

In the Matter of the Application of Atlas Powder Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, for a Determination, Pursuant to Section 61 of the General Corporation Law of the Value of Certain Shares of Stock of Darco Corporation 1951-01-24
Rosa Maggio Taormina, Executrix under the Last Will and Testament of Calogero Taormina, Deceased, and Samuel Miles Fink, Ancillary Administrator of the Estate of Calogero Taormina, Deceased, vs. Taormina Corporation, et al. 1951-02-07
In the Matter of the Receivership of International Re-Insurance Corporation; In re Claims of Liquidator of Keystone Indemnity Exchange 1951-02-23
The State of Delaware, to the use of Vivian Willcox Mills, and Mildred Willcox McComb, the sole heirs-at-law of Charles J. Willcox and Lucy Tubbs Willcox, both deceased, vs. Marshall E. Birkins and Anthony J. Bosco, co-partners, doing business as Steelman And Birkins, of 60 Broad Street, New York City, New York, as Principal, and Great American Indemnity Company, a corporation of the State of New York, as Surety 1951-03-01
Maurice Sandler, vs. Schenley Industries, Inc., a corporation of the State of Delaware, and John L. Leban 1951-03-13
Dorothy Elizabeth Barton duPont, vs. Alfred Victor duPont, et al.; Dorothy Elizabeth Barton duPont, vs. Alfred Victor duPont 1951-03-22
Sunbeam Corporation, vs. Philip Klein, trading as Phils Distributors 1951-03-27
Security Trust Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Trustee under the Will of Albert T. Hanby, deceased, vs. Cecil DeClyne Hanby, Executrix under the Will of Albert T. Hanby, and Cecil DeClyne Hanby 1951-04-13
Lee N. Hodson, Sr., Walter H. Hodson and Lee N. Hodson, Jr., vs. The Hodson Corporation, a Delaware corporation, and Jessie Blanche Price 1951-04-18
The Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free And Accepted Masons of the State of Delaware, Incorporated, a corporation of the State of Delaware, vs. Hiram Grand Lodge Masonic Temple, Inc., a corporation of the State of Delaware, and William H. Smith, Thomas Blackwell, Charles Johnson, Israel Marshall, George Quarles, Earl R. Taylor, Albert Tunkins, Matthew W. Reese, Joseph Sims, and Oliver Underhill 1951-04-19
John Roane, Incorporated, a Maryland corporation, vs. Pierce E. Tweed 1951-04-20
Oscar Ginns, Trustee, and Delaware Trust Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Co-Trustee by appointment of the Chancellor, under the will of William Topkis, deceased, vs. Vitelia Topkis, Jacob Henry Topkis and Perry Topkis, Executors of the Estate of Harry Topkis, The Jewish Welfare Society, Inc., Family Society, Inc., Orthodox Adas Kodesch Congregation, Wilmington General Hospital Association, Inc., Delaware Hospital, Inc., Homeopathic Hospital Association of Delaware, Palestine Foundation Fund, Betty Topkis Schiff, Jacob Henry Topkis, Perry Topkis, Jack Topkis, Horace J. Ginns, Ruth Ginns Deneau, Esther Topkis Potts 1951-04-27
Delaware Trust Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Executor of the Last Will and Testament of Edmund Curtiss McCune, deceased, vs. Curtiss S. McCune, Homeopathic Hospital Association of Delaware, a corporation of the State of Delaware, and The Salvation Army, a corporation of the State of New York 1951-05-03
J. Rowland Morgan, vs. William F. Wells, Jr. and Catherine C. Wells, his wife, and Sarah E. Wells, Widow 1951-05-03
Beatrice L. Colton, Lillie E. Catoe, Lunette P. Martin, and Silas Dawkins, vs. Lillian Wade 1951-05-10
Delaware Trust Company, a Banking Corporation of the State of Delaware, Executor of the Will of Basil B. G. Blackstone, deceased, vs. Margaret Patterson Blackstone, Widow of Decedent, Margaret Patterson Blackstone and Ann Doremus Blackstone, Minor Children of Decedent, Annie C. Blackstone, Surviving Mother of Decedent, and Delaware Trust Company, Trustee of a certain inter vivos trust created by Basil B. G. Blackstone, Decedent 1951-05-17
William F. Monigle, Jr. and Ellen M. Monigle, his wife, Raymond A. Schaal and Helen Brown Schaal, his wife, Charles I. Heckman and Martha M. Heckman, his wife, Christian R. Heckler and Alma M. Heckler, his wife, Albert A. Wittchen and Christine Wittchen, his wife, Erwin E. Masten and Vera N. Masten, his wife, vs. Mildred Darlington 1951-05-25
Howard OConnor, vs. Seaboard Commercial Corporation, a corporation of the State of Delaware 1951-06-29
K. McKinley Smith, vs. The Biggs Boiler Works Company, et al. 1951-07-06
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, vs. Du Pont Safety Razor Corporation 1951-07-13
Mary Jannuzzio, vs. Robert G. Hackett, James A. LeFevre and Joseph A. L. Errigo, constituting the Directors of Public Safety, and Andrew J. Kavanaugh, Superintendent of Public Safety of the City of Wilmington, Delaware, and Harvey J. Wadman, Chief of Police, and Evan L. Barney, Captain of Police, City of Wilmington, Delaware; Anthony Panaro, Rose Panaro, Lucy Panaro, Lena Panaro, Mary Connelly, Rose Reveille, Joseph Reveille, Joseph Panaro, and Molly Panaro. vs. Robert G. Hackett, James A. LeFevre and Joseph A. L. Errigo, constituting the Directors of Public Safety, and Andrew J. Kavanaugh, Superintendent of Public Safety of the City of Wilmington, Delaware, and Harvey J. Wadman, Chief of Police, and Evan L. Barney, Captain of Police, City of Wilmington, Delaware 1951-08-01
Frank B. Emerson, Executor of the Estate of William O. Emerson, deceased, vs. Grace E. Campbell, Frank B. Emerson, Individually, Alice P. Brown and Stanley B. Emerson; Grace E. Campbell, vs. Frank B. Emerson, Executor of the Estate of William O. Emerson, deceased, Frank B. Emerson, Individually, Alice P. Brown, and Stanley E. Emerson 1951-08-06
Union Methodist Episcopal Church, of Wilmington, Delaware, a religious corporation of the State of Delaware; and Scott Methodist Episcopal Church, of Wilmington, Delaware, a religious corporation of the State of Delaware, vs. Equitable Trust Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware and Trustee under the will of Henry C. English 1951-08-17
Herman H. Leasure and Monroe W. Bramble, vs. Dr. James Beebe, Jacob H. Speicher, J. Ohrum Small, Eugene H. Shallcross, Max Terry and William B. Horner, the members of and constituting the State Board of Education, and Joseph H. McVey, W. Franklin Wilson, Dr. C. M. Olson and J. Pearce Cann, the members of and constituting the Board of Education of the Newark Special School District, and Ann Barczewski, Claude C. Brooks, Helen D. Woerner and Lewis M. Hagerty, the members of and constituting the Board of School Trustees of Glasgow School District No. 56 1951-08-27
Edward A. Kerbs and George J. Haney, vs. California Eastern Airways, Inc., a Delaware corporation 1951-09-28
Tessie Gottlieb, vs. Heyden Chemical Corporation, a corporation of the State of Delaware 1951-10-08
Miriam Bass Rosenfield, sometimes known as Miriam G. Rosenfield, vs. Standard Electric Equipment Corporation, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Edward M. Rosenfield, Harry G. Rosenfield and Manassah Kaplan 1951-10-18
W. Albert Haddock, vs. Board of Public Education In Wilmington, a Delaware corporation, and J. A. Bader & Co., Inc., a Delaware corporation 1951-10-29
Coleman duPont Road, Incorporated, a Boulevard Corporation created by and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and Francis V. duPont, vs. Hiram Lasher and Bertha Lasher, his wife; Coleman duPont Road, Incorporated, a Boulevard Corporation created by and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, and Francis V. duPont, vs. Rodney Feed Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware 1951-11-01
Mary M. Miller, vs. Hob Tea Room, Inc., a corporation of the State of Delaware, and Henry P. Burrows, Jr. 1951-11-08
Charles A. Hollingsworth and Dorothy V. Hollingsworth, his wife; William Y. Musser and Grace E. Musser, his wife; John W. Barnhart, Ross Cardinale, Mildred Ballance, William Crather, and Regina Crather, his wife; Albert George, John H. Arnold, Richard L. Willenborg and Eleanor Willenborg, his wife; Anna M. Hutchison, Carroll T. Shelton and Paul A. Brody, vs. Edward J. Szczesiak and Rita M. Szczesiak, his wife, and Mitchell Podralski 1951-12-04
K. McKinley Smith, vs. The Biggs Boiler Works Company, et al. 1951-12-10
Francis L. Walton, Jr., and Elizabeth R. Walton, his wife, George B. Glackin and Naomi M. Glackin, his wife, Robert H. Gordon and Edythe S. Gordon, his wife, Edward A. Montague and Mary E. Montague, his wife, and Victor G. Esker and Mary Leslie Esker, his wife, vs. Charles M. Poplos and Lillian R. Poplos, his wife, Gerald A. Roy and Jane H. Roy, his wife, Edward Mucha, Sr., and Cecelia R. Mucha, his wife, George P. Kee-Keegan and Mary E. Keegan, his wife, Guernie Roger Knowles and Clemmie E. Knowles, his wife, and Raymond L. Phillips and Elsie T. Phillips, his wife 1951-12-13