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BANK OF DELAWARE v. DELAWARE TRUST COMPANY

280 A.2d 534 (1971)

BANK OF DELAWARE, formerly Equitable Trust Company, a Delaware corporation, Executor under the Will of Cornelia McCune Patterson, and Delaware Trust Company, a Delaware corporation, Executor under the Will of Edmund McCune, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. DELAWARE TRUST COMPANY, a Delaware corporation, Trustee under the Will of Mary McCune Harper, Plaintiff Below, Appellee, and John C. McCune et al., Defendants Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

June 29, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rodney M. Layton and Jane R. Roth of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, for Bank of Delaware, defendant below, appellant.

David F. Anderson and Richard L. McMahon of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, for Delaware Trust Co., defendant below, appellant.

James M. Tunnell, Jr. and Richard S. Paul of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, for Delaware Trust Co., plaintiff below, appellee, and individual defendants below, appellees.

WOLCOTT, C. J., and CAREY and HERRMANN, JJ., sitting.

PER CURIAM.

In this proceeding arising from a request for instructions as to the proper distribution of the corpus of the trust, the Chancery Court's opinion appears at 269 A.2d 256. For the reasons therein stated, we affirm the conclusion of the Chancery Court as to the intent of the testatrix. It is our opinion that the language of the Will, when viewed in its entirety and in the light of surrounding circumstances, is abundantly...

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