Delaware Court of Chancery, 1953

50 opinions

Security Trust Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Trustee under the Last Will and Testament of James Wilson, deceased, vs. Samuel L. Irvine, Frazer Wilson, Jeannette A. Wilson, Grace Wilson Gearhart, Helen G. Wilson Miller, Margaret W. Hanby, Mary Hope Wilson, James Rankin Davis, Executor under the Last Will and Testament of Margaret W. Irvine, deceased, Helen G. Wilson Miller, Executrix under the Last Will and Testament of Henry Wilson, deceased, Frederick W. Kurtz, Executor under the Last Will and Testament of Mary E. Wilson, deceased, Charles C. Kurtz, Executor and Trustee under the Last Will and Testament of Martha B. Wilson, deceased, and Jeannette A. Wilson, Executrix or Administratrix of the Estate of Samuel H. Wilson, deceased 1953-01-02
Bertha E. Maurer, vs. International Re-Insurance Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware 1953-01-08
Cora B. Stark, vs. Harry A. Stark 1953-01-15
In the matter of Albert Miller Griffith, an insane person 1953-01-19
Edward A. Kerbs and George J. Haney, vs. California Eastern Airways, Inc., a Delaware corporation 1953-01-20
Francis A. Gunnip and Fred C. Crosland, and John E. Healy and Sons, Inc., a Delaware corporation, vs. Henry C. Lautenklos, Olivia Thomas, Arthur G. Craig, Herman D. Walker, constituting and being the Board of School Trustees for the Henrik J. Krebs School, Newport School District No. 21, New Castle County, and J. Ohrum Small and George Tyler Coulson, members of the State Board of Education, who with the members of the Board of School Trustees for the Henrik J. Krebs School, Newport School District No. 21, are and constitute the School Building Commission of the Henrik J. Krebs School, Newport School District No. 21, and Ernest DiSabatino & Sons, Inc., a corporation of the State of Delaware 1953-02-09
Pan American Trade and Investment Corporation, a Delaware corporation, American Rail and Steel Co., a Delaware corporation, and Milton A. Canter, vs. Commercial Metals Company, a Delaware corporation 1953-02-11
The President, Directors and Company of the Farmers Bank of the State of Delaware, a corporation of that State, Trustee under the last will and testament of John E. Kerin, deceased, vs. Delaware Trust Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Trustee for Josephine Kerin, an insane person, Bernard A. Behen, John E. Connor, Robert J. Campbell, Jr., and Anna D. Behen, Executrix of the last will and testament of James J. Behen, deceased 1953-03-02
Equitable Trust Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Executor under the Last Will and Testament of Margaret C. Kane, deceased, vs. Hugh F. Gallagher 1953-03-09
Lee Builders, Inc., vs. William F. Wells, Jr., and Catherine C. Wells, his wife, and Sarah E. Wells, widow 1953-03-11
Delaware Trust Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Executor and Trustee under the will of Mary Blanche Carlisle Hirsch, deceased, vs. Delaware Trust Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Trustee under agreement of Trust dated December 21, 1940, with Blanche C. Hirsch, Carlisle L. Hubbard, Agnes Hubbard, Linda Elizabeth Stewart, Elizabeth Vaules Carlisle, Lester L. Carlisle, Jr., William Carney, Eva Virginia Lofland, Agnes Hubbard Tisch, Alice Mitchell Hubbard, Linda Stewart Eklof, Lulu C. Darby, John C. Darby, Nell A. Beardsley, Christian Science Society, Milford, Delaware, The First Church of Christ Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts, Edward Stewart, and Richard Hubbard 1953-03-19
Albert Louis Thomas, Jr., vs. John Rodney King and Eleanor W. King, his wife, and Viking Engineering Co., a Delaware corporation 1953-04-02
Beatrice L. Colton, Lillie E. Catoe, Lunette P. Martin, Silas Dawkins, and Herman Cohen, Administrator, vs. Lillian Wade 1953-04-09
Bertha E. Maurer, vs. International Re-Insurance Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware 1953-04-10
Harry Wolf, vs. Globe Liquor Company, a Delaware corporation 1953-04-13
Herbert C. Hauth, vs. Giant Portland Cement Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Ronald M. Craigmyle, Walter C. Beecken, Alexander Pinney, Robert W. White, Ernest J. Capen, and Samuel N. Kirkland 1953-04-15
James B. Stuart, Executor and Trustee under the will of Robert D. Stuart, vs. Joseph Stuart, 2d, Alfred I. Stuart, and Joseph Stuart, III 1953-04-22
Louis A. Greene, vs. George E. Allen, Eastman Birkett, Oswald L. Johnston, Floyd B. Odlum, W. C. Rockefeller, and Airfleets, Inc., a Delaware corporation 1953-04-27
Candler-Hill Corporation, vs. Seminole Oil & Gas Corporation, and Jack R. Gammel 1953-05-08
Equitable Trust Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Executor under the last will and testament of Margaret C. Kane, deceased, vs. Hugh F. Gallagher 1953-05-12
Solomon L. Sapp and Robert Baynard Smith, sometimes known as R. Baynard Smith and Baynard Smith, Executors of the Last Will and Testament of Elva S. Sapp, late of the Town of Harrington, Kent County, Delaware, deceased, vs. Solomon L. Sapp, Robert Baynard Smith, Sometimes known as R. Baynard Smith and Baynard Smith, William F. Smith, Robert H. Smith, Katherine M. Smith, Katherine Louise Smith, Elvia Rae Smith, Carol Lynn Smith, Robert Leonard Smith and Joan Elaine Smith 1953-05-12
Canada Southern Oils, Ltd., vs. Manabi Exploration Company, Inc. 1953-05-15
Security Trust Company, (now Equitable Security Trust Company) a corporation of the State of Delaware, Trustee under the Will of Anna Plunkett, deceased, vs. H. Clark Willett, Executor of the Will of Natalie Plunkett, deceased, H. Clark Willett, beneficiary under the Will of Natalie Plunkett, deceased, Lane Willett, beneficiary under the Will of Natalie Plunkett, deceased, Security Trust and Safe Deposit Company, whose correct corporate title is now Security Trust Company, Trustee for the Little Sisters of the Poor, Incorporated, a corporation of the State of Delaware, and Little Sisters of the Poor, Incorporated, a corporation of the State of Delaware 1953-06-01
Eugene Lammot, vs. Wayne C. Brewer, John W. Foreman, Christopher S. Glover, Robert A. Groves, Leon H. Ryan, T. Muncy Keith, William O. Wingate, Sigmund Schorr, constituting members of the Department of Elections for New Castle County 1953-06-12
William C. Boozer, Evelyn Ruth Boozer, A. Allen Hein, vs. Wallace M. Johnson, as Mayor of the City of Newark; Wallace M. Johnson, Carl Rankin, John R. Downes, William Coverdale, Donald Hill, Frank Durnall and Samuel Diehl, as members of the Council of the City of Newark; Wallace M. Johnson, Francis Neide and John P. Sinclair, constituting the Board of Adjustment of the City of Newark; and Charles D. Long, as City Clerk of the City of Newark 1953-06-17
Erwin M. Budner and Ruth E. Budner, vs. Leon V. Haas and Arle E. Haas, and Equitable Trust Company, Successor Trustee under the will of Horace D. Clark, deceased 1953-06-25
Dorothy Elizabeth Barton duPont, vs. Alfred Victor duPont 1953-07-03
Theodore F. McDaniel, vs. Samuel A. McDaniel, II, and Grace McDaniel 1953-07-03
Alexis I. DuPont Bayard, Erwin M. Budner, Stanley Ross, and Star Publishing Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, vs. Joseph H. Martin and J. Edwin Carter 1953-07-15
E. M. Fleischmann Lumber Corporation, a corporation of the State of Maryland, vs. Resources Corporation International, a corporation of the State of Delaware, and Vancouver Plywood Company, a corporation of the State of Washington 1953-07-16
Leonard Heller, Minnie Meyers and Henry L. Meyers, Executors of the Last Will and Testament of Simon Meyers, and David Kabaker, vs. Munsingwear, Inc., a corporation of the State of Delaware 1953-07-23
Emerson, et al., vs. Emerson, et al. 1953-08-04
Madeline Black Layton, vs. Lewis S. Black, surviving Trustee under the Last Will and Testament of George Black, and Jane Black, George A. Black, and William David Black 1953-08-08
William H. Bennett, vs. Breuil Petroleum Corporation, a corporation of the State of Delaware, James F. Breuil, Sr., Maxine M. Breuil, James F. Breuil, Jr., Alicia Breuil Lammerts, Leland K. MacFarland, David D. Nash and Warren Mundie 1953-08-11
Safe Harbor Fishing Club, a Delaware corporation, vs. Safe Harbor Realty Company, a Delaware corporation, and Harry A. Fisher 1953-08-13
Dorothy Elizabeth Barton duPont, vs. Alfred Victor duPont 1953-08-13
John Nash and Mary A. Nash, his wife, vs. Robert J. Connell and Marguerite G. Connell, his wife; George A. Johnson and Evelyn R. Johnson, his wife; James R. Beckett 1953-08-18
Harry Cohen and Commercial Trust Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, vs. The Mayor and Council of Wilmington, a municipal corporation of the State of Delaware; Samuel M. Culver, J. H. Tyler McConnell, Benjamin F. Shaw, 2d, J. Draper Brown, Jr., J. Gordon Smith, William P. Richardson and Clayton A. Bunting, Commissioners of and constituting the State Highway Department of the State of Delaware; and Henry C. Eastburn & Son, Inc., a corporation of the State of Delaware 1953-08-28
Morton M. Banks, Morton M. Banks, Trustee, vs. Cristina Copper Mines, Inc., a corporation created by and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware 1953-09-09
Ruby R. Vale, vs. Atlantic Coast and Inland Corporation and William P. Short, Jr., Administrator 1953-09-18
Helen W. Wolfman, Benjamin Wolfman, her husband; Mabel Rothstein, widow; Minnie W. Hoffman, M. Bernard Hoffman, her husband; and Peter G. Kledaras, vs. Henry Jablonski and Frances M. Jablonski 1953-09-25
William M. Shane, Executor under the last will and testament of Anna C. Holt, deceased, vs. Elizabeth R. Johnson, Sarah A. Bidden, Robert J. Fleming, Alfred H. Fleming, Martin F. Shannon, Jr., William M. Shane, William J. Fleming, George E. Fleming, Mary E. Shane, and Mildred Dempsey 1953-09-29
Tessie Gottlieb, vs. Heyden Chemical Corporation, a corporation of the State of Delaware 1953-10-08
Lillian E. Darlak, vs. Michael T. Darlak 1953-10-14
William Elster and Anna F. Cohen, vs. American Airlines, Inc., a Delaware corporation 1953-10-14
Clifford W. Pusey and Lewis H. Pusey, trading as C. W. Pusey and Son, vs. Frank M. Lynch 1953-10-27
Albert A. Anthony and Natalie R. Anthony, his wife, Paul A. Betts and Dorothy Betts, his wife, Plaintiffs, vs. Calvin J. Harris, Jr., Defendant. Harry Long, Jr., Beryl Long and Fred Long, Interveners 1953-11-05
John Kenneth Danby, vs. The Osteopathic Hospital Association of Delaware, a corporation of the State of Delaware, and Wilmington Trust Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware 1953-11-18
Charles A. Glenn and Catherine R. Glenn, his wife, vs. Tide Water Associated Oil Company, a Delaware corporation 1953-12-09
Helen P. Tracy, vs. The Prudential Insurance Company of America, a New Jersey corporation, Sara A. Bell, also known as Sara Ann Bell, and William M. Tracy, Jr. 1953-12-11