Cutler v. Tuttle
Supreme Court of New Jersey
This cause was argued in the Court of Chancery upon the pleadings and proofs. The Chancellor delivered the following opinion: * The complainant charges that the defendant attended, as her attorney and agent, a partition sale of lands, of which she was a tenant in common, and purchased three lots for her; that he purchased the three lots for her at the sale for $24.91, and took a deed in his own name, but paid for them by giving to the commissioners, receipts and discharges…
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This cause was argued in the Court of Chancery upon the pleadings and proofs. The Chancellor delivered the following opinion: * The complainant charges that the defendant attended, as her attorney and agent, a partition sale of lands, of which she was a tenant in common, and purchased three lots for her; that he purchased the three lots for her at the sale for $24.91, and took a deed in his own name, but paid for them by giving to the commissioners, receipts and discharges for the sums due to her for her own share and that of her sister, Jane C. Anderson, whose share she had purchased pending…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Depue, J.
The respondent (the complainant below) filed her bill in the Court of Chancery, to obtain a conveyance to her by the defendant of three several lots of land, situate in the county *554of Mdrris, for which the defendant obtained the legal title by a purchase at a sale, made by commissioners appointed to make partition of certain lands which had descended to the complainant, ahd Daniel L. Tuttle, and Jane 0. Anderson, as heirs-at-law of Hannah Tuttle, deceased.
The facts Of the Case are briefly these: At the death of the said Hannah Tuttle, certain…
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