Legal Opinion
Bankers Trust Company v. Duffy
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided July 26, 1972PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLCOTT, Chief Justice :
This is an appeal from an Order of the Vice Chancellor allowing in part and denying in part a request for allowance of counsel fees to out-of-state and local counsel representing an accounting trustee.
Involved are three inter vivos trusts created respectively in 1955, 1957 and 1959. Initially, each of the trusts had individual trustees but over the years, by reason of attrition, the appellant, Bankers Trust Company, is now the sole trustee.
Prior to the institution of this proceeding in the Court of Chancery in March, 1971, no trustee had ever made a judicial accounting…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Wilmington Trust Co. v. CoulterCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1965
- Hayward v. GreenSupreme Court of Delaware · 1952
- In re First Account of Equitable Trust Co.Court of Chancery of Delaware · 1943
- In Re Trust Estate of Richard Sellers, Dec'd.Court of Chancery of Delaware · 1949
- In re the Estate of WalkerOrphan's Court of Delaware · 1923
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Riggs National Bank of Washington, D. C. v. ZimmerCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1976
- Capaldi v. RichardsSupreme Court of Delaware · 2005
- DuPont v. Southern Nat. Bank of Houston, TexasDistrict Court, S.D. Texas · 1983
- Law v. LawSupreme Court of Delaware · 2000
- In Re Couch TrustCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1998
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