du Pont v. du Pont

The Chancellor:

A question has been raised with respect to parties—whether the cause can proceed to a decree because unborn contingent remaindermen cannot be bound by it, and second, if so, whether the living issue of Eugene du Pont, Anne du Pont Peyton and Julia S. du Pont Andrews should be made parties to the bill. The interests of the living issue just referred to are purely contingent. They depend for their vesting first upon the absence of issue on the part of Amy E. du Pont, next (subject to the failure of Miss du Pont to exercise the power of appointment) upon their surviving both her…