Legal Opinion

Equitable Trust Co. v. Union National Bank

Court of Chancery of Delaware

Decided February 14, 1941PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

The Chancellor:

This is a bill for instructions, filed by the Equitable Trust Company, the grantee in two several deeds of trust. A, who has now been found to be a lunatic by certain proceedings taken pursuant to the order of this court, is the ultimate taker of the corpus of both funds, clear of any trust provisions, whatsoever. The income arising therefrom is, however, payable to certain other named persons during their lives, or the life of the survivor. At the time of the creation of these trusts, the corpus consisted of certain invested securities which were assigned and granted to the…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. In re ReevesSupreme Court of Delaware · 1915
  2. In re ReevesCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1914
  3. Spruance v. DarlingtonCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1894
  4. Highfield v. Delaware Trust Co.Supreme Court of Delaware · 1930
  5. In re HarrisCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1893

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. T. Everett Starrett v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1955
  2. In re duPontCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1963
  3. In Re duPontCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1963
  4. Wier v. Howard Hughes Medical InstituteCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1979
  5. Hanson v. Wilmington Trust Co.Court of Chancery of Delaware · 1955

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