Hannan v. Osborn
New York Court of Chancery
The bill in this cause was filedin 1821, by Alexander Han-nan and Margaret his wife, against Ann Osborn and Catharine Raborg, for the partition and sale of a lot of land, in the city of New-York, and for an account of the rents and profits thereof; and the bill prayed that certain bonds and mortgages which had been assigned to Alexander Hannan, and which were a lien upon the premises, might be paid out of the proceeds of the sale.
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The bill in this cause was filedin 1821, by Alexander Han-nan and Margaret his wife, against Ann Osborn and Catharine Raborg, for the partition and sale of a lot of land, in the city of New-York, and for an account of the rents and profits thereof; and the bill prayed that certain bonds and mortgages which had been assigned to Alexander Hannan, and which were a lien upon the premises, might be paid out of the proceeds of the sale. The bill was afterwards amended by making Richard Woodhull a party defendant. The complainants alleged, in their bill, that the premises in question belonged to…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The first question to be examined in this cause is, whether Margaret Lent, at the time of her death, 'Was the owner of the whole lot, or was only entitled to the sixth part thereof as one of the heirs at law of her mother, who died in 1784. If Ann Brewster, the grand niece of Margaret Lent, was to be entitled to a share of her property under the statute of descents, then it can make no difference *339With the other parties to this suit, whether the whole lot originally belonged to Margaret Lent, or to her mother, as their several interests in the property would be precisely the…
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