Demarest v. Den ex dem. Hopper
Supreme Court of New Jersey
This was an action of ejectment brought in the Supreme Court by John Den, on the demise of Maria Louisa Hopper, Eliza Ann Hopper, Charity Euphemia Hopper, Henry Lewis Hopper, Catharine Jane Hopper, Emily Hopper, Lewis Hopper, John Bush, and Peter P. Wortendike and Baohael his wife, against Garret J. Demarest, Daniel D. Blauvelt, James Holdrum, and Henry A. Terhune, in trespass and ejectment for lands in Bergen county.
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This was an action of ejectment brought in the Supreme Court by John Den, on the demise of Maria Louisa Hopper, Eliza Ann Hopper, Charity Euphemia Hopper, Henry Lewis Hopper, Catharine Jane Hopper, Emily Hopper, Lewis Hopper, John Bush, and Peter P. Wortendike and Baohael his wife, against Garret J. Demarest, Daniel D. Blauvelt, James Holdrum, and Henry A. Terhune, in trespass and ejectment for lands in Bergen county. It was tried before the Chief Justice at the Bergen Circuit, in February, 1847, when a special verdict was found under the direction of the court. John Bush and Baohael the wife…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
Johannes Perry died in 1832, leaving a will, by which, after other devises, he devised as follows: “ I give unto my daughter Catharine for and during her life, the remainder of my real estate; after her death, I will and require the same shall be equally divided among her heirs, and be unto them, their heirs and assigns, for ever.”
*611At the death of the testator, Catharine had a daughter, Maria, her only child by her husband, Michael Salyer, the said Maria being then married to Lewis Hopper.
After the death of the testator, and in the lifetime of Catharine, Lewis Hopper and the…
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