Wier v. Howard Hughes Medical Institute

MARVEL, Chancellor:

This action to determine the appropriate person or entities to manage and control the policies of the defendant charitable corporation was filed jointly in the names of the Attorney General of the State of Delaware and of William R. Lummis, the Delaware ancillary administrator of the estate of the late Howard R. Hughes, Jr. The defendant Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a tax-exempt charitable corporation incorporated in Delaware and founded by the late Howard R. Hughes, Jr., in 1953, the latter having constituted himself at that time Trustee of the Institute with full…