In re Abraham Coursen's Will
New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division
Gershom H. Coursen. of New-York, one of the executors of the last will’and testament of Abraham Coursen, deceased, took an order at the term of April, eighteen hundred and forty-three, to show cause on the first of May, why the original will and codicil should not be admitted to probate. The testator resided and died in the city of New-York.
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Gershom H. Coursen. of New-York, one of the executors of the last will’and testament of Abraham Coursen, deceased, took an order at the term of April, eighteen hundred and forty-three, to show cause on the first of May, why the original will and codicil should not be admitted to probate. The testator resided and died in the city of New-York. By his will, Ephraim Marsh and another, were appointed executors; by the codicil, G. H. Coursen. was substituted as co-executor with Marsh. Coursen proved the will and codicil in New-York. Afterwards, on the twenty-ninth of March last, application on…
1Opinion of the Court
The Ordinary.
I have no difficulty in deciding this case at once; but as the parties may be saved future expense by a decision of the several points which have been raised before,me on the argument, I will take them up in order.
Nothing is more embarrassing in our whole municipal system-than this subject of the powers of the ordinary, the surrogates, and the orphans’ court. The course, and practice of ecclesiastical court's in general, are so little familiar to our bar, and our statute laws are often so vague and uncertain, that the whole subject presents a wilderness of perplexity to the…
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