Steward v. Knight
New Jersey Court of Chancery
On bill to quiet title. Answers and agreed statement of facts. The complainant is the owner and possessor of a farm in Lower Penn’s Neck, in Salem county, to an undivided third part of tvhich the defendants claim title. She files her bill under the act to compel the determination of claims to real estate in certain eases, and to quiet title to the same.
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On bill to quiet title. Answers and agreed statement of facts. The complainant is the owner and possessor of a farm in Lower Penn’s Neck, in Salem county, to an undivided third part of tvhich the defendants claim title. She files her bill under the act to compel the determination of claims to real estate in certain eases, and to quiet title to the same. Gen. 8tat. p. 3486. She alleges that the defendants falsely claim to own her farm, and prays that they may set forth their title; that the rights of the parties may be adjudicated and settled by the decree; that it may be determined that her…
1Opinion of the Court
Grey, V. C.
There are several incidents appearing on the face of the will and in the relations of the testatrix to her beneficiaries which are beyond dispute, and which may throw some light upon the intentions of the testatrix as expressed in the will. It is apparent that the testatrix intended to dispose of her whole estate, real and personal, absolutely. It is also plain that she intended to prefer James over his brothers dnd sisters, and to give her whole estate to him. No part was, in the first instance, by her given to anyone else. At the time she (testatrix) made her will J ames was a…
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