Title: Harrison v. Chapin

State: delaware

Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court

Document:

415 A.2d 1068 (1980)
Robert Pegram HARRISON, Respondent Below, Appellant,
v.
E. Y. CHAPIN, III, Applicant Below, Appellee, and
Benwood Foundation, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, S. L. Probasco, Jr., Walter R. Randolph, Jr., Sebert Brewer, Jr., Joseph H. Davenport, Jr., Sam I. Yarnell, J. Ralston Wells, John P. Wright, The Coca-Cola Company, a Delaware Corporation, and American National Bank and Trust Company of Chattanooga, a National Banking Association, Respondents Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.
Submitted May 16, 1980.
Decided May 23, 1980.
John H. Small (argued) and William Prickett, of Prickett, Jones, Elliott & Kristol, Wilmington, for appellant.
Michael D. Goldman (argued), of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, for appellees E. Y. Chapin, III, and Benwood Foundation, Inc., Walter R. Randolph, Jr., Joseph H. Davenport, Jr. and S. L. Probasco, Jr.
Before McNEILLY, QUILLEN and HORSEY, JJ.
PER CURIAM:
This appeal was carefully and thoroughly considered by the Court of Chancery. The Trial Court's opinion is reported [Chapin v. Benwood Foundation, Inc., Del.Ch., 402 A.2d 1205 (1979)] and we rely on that opinion for a full development of the facts of the case.
We also find that one brief portion of the Vice Chancellor's opinion is dispositive of the motion for summary judgment filed by the applicant and several respondents. The Vice Chancellor wrote at 402 A.2d 1210:
We agree with the above quoted remarks of the Vice Chancellor and therefore affirm the judgment of the Court below on that ground without reaching the other matters argued by counsel.