CAUFFIEL v. CAUFFIEL


161 A.2d 432 (1960)

Luella K. CAUFFIEL, Beatrice Cauffiel Blank, T. Coleman Cauffiel, DeWitt T. Cauffiel, and Daniel W. Cauffiel, Plaintiffs, v. Luella K. CAUFFIEL, Beatrice Cauffiel Blank, T. Coleman Cauffiel, DeWitt T. Cauffiel, Daniel W. Cauffiel, Hazel Cauffiel Lickle, William Cauffiel, Lickle, Sidney Cauffiel Lickle, Garrison duPont Lickle, Daniel Cauffiel Lickle, LeDee Carpenter Lickle, DeWitt Cauffiel Lickle, Joan Cauffiel DeLong, Clarke L. DeLong, Jr., Betty Jane Cauffiel Hedin, Kristina Hedin, Janet Cauffiel Beauchamp, Theodore M. Beauchamp, III, William Beauchamp, Geraldine Cauffiel Lingo, Charles Dale Lingo, III, Donald C. Lingo, and Geraldine Lingo, Defendants.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

April 19, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clair J. Killoran and E.D. Griffenberg, Jr., of Killoran & VanBrunt, Wilmington, for plaintiffs.

Edmund N. Carpenter, II, of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, for defendants, Hazel C. Lickle, William C. Lickle and Daniel C. Lickle.

Henry R. Horsey of Berl, Potter & Anderson, Wilmington, Guardian Ad Litem for Clarke L. DeLong, Jr., Kristina Hedin, Charles D. Lingo, III, Donald C. Lingo, Geraldine Lingo, Theodore M. Beauchamp, III, William Beauchamp, Sidney C. Lickle, Garrison duPont Lickle, LeDee C. Lickle and DeWitt C. Lickle.

Geraldine C. Lingo, pro se.


SEITZ, Chancellor.

The five plaintiffs have life estates by deed in four parcels of real property in Union Park Gardens, Wilmington, Delaware. The parties entitled to the future interest in these properties cannot be ascertained at the present time because each deed provides that after the death of the life tenant the premises are demised to the "surviving lawful issue" of the life tenant "and the heirs and assigns of such...

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