Legal Opinion

In re the Trust Estate of Catell

Court of Chancery of Delaware

Decided July 15, 1944PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Harrington, Chancellor:

Mary E. Catell died testate, a resident of the City of Wilmington, April 27th, 1938. The petitioners are beneficiaries under her will and seek to remove the survivor of the two trustees to whom she bequeathed and devised her residuary estate. They allege in the petitian filed: (1) that the will of the deceased does not authorize William T. Knowles, the surviving trustee, to act; (2) that, in any event, he has failed to give the bond for $25,000, required by the will of the deceased, or any other bond, to safeguard the trust estate; (3) that there are con-dieting…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Massey v. StoutCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1871
  2. Broeker v. WareCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1942
  3. Huston v. WeedAppellate Court of Illinois · 1926

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Nick Dardovitch v. Mark S. Haltzman, Esquire Catherine A. Backos, as Trustees of Glenn Eagle Square Equity Assoc. Trust Glenn Eagle Square Equity Associates, Inc., Mark S. Haltzman, in No. 98-1421 Nick Dardovitch v. Mark S. Haltzman, Esquire Catherine A. Backos, as Trustees of Glenn Eagle Square Equity Assoc. Trust Glenn Eagle Square Equity Associates, Inc., Mark S. Haltzman, in No. 98-1422 Nick Dardovitch in No. 98-1452 v. Mark S. Haltzman, Esquire Catherine A. Backos, as Trustees of Glenn Eagle Square Equity Assoc. Trust Glenn Eagle Square Equity Associates, IncCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1999
  2. McNeil v. McNeilSupreme Court of Delaware · 2002
  3. Dardovitch v. HaltzmanCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1999
  4. Wilmington Trust Co. v. CoulterCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1965
  5. Capaldi v. RichardsSupreme Court of Delaware · 2005

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