Trotter v. Heckscher
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal from a decree advised by Vice-Cbancellor Bird, ■who filed the following conclusions: The issue in this case will appear by a presentation of the (pleadings. The bill shows that in the year 1877 the complain.ant became possessed of an estate for the term of thirty years in a mine of franklinite ore in Sussex county, and that on June 2d, 1881, he made an agreement with one Charles A. Heckscher, ■of Philadelphia, a full synopsis of which will appear hereafter.
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On appeal from a decree advised by Vice-Cbancellor Bird, ■who filed the following conclusions: The issue in this case will appear by a presentation of the (pleadings. The bill shows that in the year 1877 the complain.ant became possessed of an estate for the term of thirty years in a mine of franklinite ore in Sussex county, and that on June 2d, 1881, he made an agreement with one Charles A. Heckscher, ■of Philadelphia, a full synopsis of which will appear hereafter. The bill alleges that Heckscher was the treasurer of a corporation of the state of Pennsylvania by the name of “ The Lehigh…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Dixon, J.
The rights of the parties to this controversy grow out of the following contract under seal:
“ This indenture, made the second day of June, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, between Charles W. Trotter, of the city of Brooklyn and state of New York, of the one part, and Charles A. Heckscher, of the city of Philadelphia and state of Pennsylvania, coal-miner and shipper of coal, of the other part, witnesseth : That whereas one James L. Curtis, of the city of New York, sole surviving trustee of the Franklinite Mining Company, did, by…
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