Jacobs v. Wilmington Trust Co.
Supreme Court of Delaware
Appeal prom the Court op Chan'cery. This was an appeal from the decree in the above stated cause, entered by the Chancellor in accordance with an opinion filed on July 5th, 1910, and reported ante p. 70. The assignments of error are, as follows: 1. That the Court erred in decreeing that the powers and duties named in said will to be exercised by Vaughan Smith Collins, the executor and trustee named in said will, survived to his successor after he had relinquished the…
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Appeal prom the Court op Chan'cery. This was an appeal from the decree in the above stated cause, entered by the Chancellor in accordance with an opinion filed on July 5th, 1910, and reported ante p. 70. The assignments of error are, as follows: 1. That the Court erred in decreeing that the powers and duties named in said will to be exercised by Vaughan Smith Collins, the executor and trustee named in said will, survived to his successor after he had relinquished the administration of the trust, and that the same could be exercised by the appellee, the present trustee. 2. That the Court erred…
1Opinion of the Court
Boyce, J.,
(delivering the opinion of the Court): This was a bill in equity, filed by the Wilmington Trust Company, complainant below, appellee, against Elizabeth Vaughan Jacobs, respondent below, appellant, by which it was sought to have the direction of the Chancellor as to the proper disposition of certain trust estate and property held by it as trustee, by appointment of the Chancellor, under the will of William H. Jacobs, deceased. From the statement of facts set forth in the bill of complaint, admitted by the respondent in her answer, William H. Jacobs, late of New Castle County, State…
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