Levin v. Smith

HORSEY, Justice:

By decision dated July 10, 1985, this Court held that the Court of Chancery erred in failing to impress, for the benefit of plaintiffs, Mary Sadler Levin and John Ambler Sadler, an oral trust on a tract of land in Delaware known as Indian Beach. The land had been deeded in fee in 1946 to defendant John Lewis Smith, Jr. (“Smith, Jr.”) by his father, John Lewis Smith, Sr. (“Smith, Sr.”), four years before the father’s death in 1950. Plaintiffs are the two children of Smith, Sr.’s daughter, Mary Ambler Sadler, Smith, Jr.’s half-sister, who died in 1977.

In this Court’s original…