Paterson v. Currier

The complainant holds paper title to land by deed from Louise Delannoy Harrison, a devisee under the inartificially drawn last will and testament of Sarah Ogden Wade, deceased, and he prays that the will be construed in respect of the devise, and that it may be declared what estate passed by the devise to the said Louise Delannoy Harrison, and what estate was conveyed by her to him. In Hoe v. Hoe, 84 N.J. Eq. 401, it was held that chancery had not jurisdiction to construe a will, where the question is purely one involving the legal title to land.Hoagland v. Cooper, 65 N.J. Eq. 407. Since that…