Berger Harris attorneys Jack Harris and David Anthony successfully defended the conveyance of a 21-acre parcel of undeveloped land in New Castle County that was challenged in the Court of Chancery. 

The case centered on the plaintiffs’ charge that Berger Harris’ client, the youngest child of the grantor of the property at issue, had unduly influenced her elderly mother to transfer the property solely to her to the exclusion of her siblings.  The plaintiffs sought the specific performance of an alleged oral promise to divide the parcel equally among the three siblings and the cancellation of the conveyance based on the undue influence claim.   After a four-day trial and extensive post-trial briefing, Master Kim E. Ayvazian issued a post-trial decision ruling in favor of Berger Harris’ client in all respects.  This litigation is illustrative of the favorable results Berger Harris achieves for its clients in the arena of intra-family business disputes in the Court of Chancery.