Legal Opinion
Stuart v. Wilmington Trust Co.
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided March 2, 1984PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McNEILLY, Justice.
This is an appeal from the Final Order and Judgment rendered by the Chancellor in response to a Petition for Instructions filed by Wilmington Trust Company, as Trustee, and Jane S. Whitman, as one of two trust advisors of a trust established under an agreement between Elbridge A. Stuart and Wilmington Trust Company. The appellant, Dwight Lyman Stuart, is the other trust advisor and a beneficiary of the trust who has requested and consented to the invasion of principal in the amount of 4.5 million dollars for the purchase of a jet plane for his personal “benefit”. The…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Wilmington Trust Co. v. Wilmington Trust Co.Supreme Court of Delaware · 1942
- Bird v. Wilmington Society of the Fine ArtsSupreme Court of Delaware · 1945
- Wilmington Trust Co. v. Wilmington Trust Co.Court of Chancery of Delaware · 1940
- Cann v. Van SantCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1940
- Delaware Trust Co. v. Delaware Trust Co.Court of Chancery of Delaware · 1952
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Faust v. Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Bucks County1990
- Rogers v. Wilmington Trust CompanyDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 2021