Peyton v. William C. Peyton Corp.

The Chancellor:

These cases arise out of the same circumstances of fact. The starting point for the fact sequences consists of the existence of a corporation known as The Standard Stoker Company which William C. Peyton, the father of the complainant, had organized in his lifetime to carry on a business that became under the guidance of himself and his associates eminently successful and, I gather, highly profitable, and concerning the future of *192which after his death he was, as is quite evident from his will, very much concerned.

Control of the Stoker Company was vested in PeytonduPont…