Legal Opinion

McKnight's Executors v. Walsh

Supreme Court of New Jersey

Decided June 15, 1873PublishedCited by 8 opinions

The cause was argued upon cross-appeals from the decree made in the Court of Chancery, by which some exceptions to the master’s report were sustained, and others overruled. The opinion of the Chancellor is reported in 8 C. E. Green 136.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Scudder, J.

On bill filed in the Court of Chancery by the executors of the last will and testament of John L. McKnight, late of Bordentown, in the county of Burlington, deceased, praying that an account of the trust fund in their hands, held by said McKnight, in his lifetime, as executor and trustee, under the last will and testament of Edward R. McCall, deceased, might be stated and taken, and a, seillement made under the order, direction, and decree of said court; and that whatever, on such settlement, might bo found to have been in the hands of said…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Barney Ex Rel. Woodhull v. SaundersSupreme Court of the United States · 1854

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. In Re FlaschNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1958
  2. In Re MegargeeNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1934
  3. Hicks v. JonesNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1946
  4. State v. National Surety Corp.New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1952
  5. Ryder v. RyderNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1945

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