Legal Opinion
Security Trust Co. v. Willett
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Decided June 1, 1953PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Seitz, Chancellor:
The principal issues are the validity of a so-called cemetery trust and if valid, the disposition of an admitted excess in that trust.
By Item Thirteenth of her will dated March 9, 1923, Anna Plunkett left $5,000 in trust with what is now Equitable Security Trust Company. The net income was to be applied forever for the • maintenance of certain family cemetery lots and tomb stones. By the residuary clause in her will the testatrix created a trust fund in favor of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Inc. Testatrix died September 16, 1924.
The Little Sisters, because of certain…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Delaware Trust Co. v. GrahamCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1948
3Cited by6 opinions
- Earney v. ClayMissouri Court of Appeals · 1974
- Gottlieb v. Heyden Chemical Corp.Supreme Court of Delaware · 1954
- First National Bank of Kansas City v. StevensonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1956
- Anderson v. Mount Zion Cemetery Ass'nCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1962
- Security Trust Co. v. WillettCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1953
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