Dey v. Dey's Administrator

The Chancellor.

The complainant seeks to have a legacy of $1000, given to her by the will of her late husband Gilbert L. Dey, declared a charge on the real estate of the testator, and paid out of the proceeds of the sale of it. The defendant John-B. Wykoff, had been appointed administrator, with the will of the testator annexed, by the Orphans Court of the county of Middlesex, which had removed the executors named in the will. The will, after directing the payment of debts, devised six acres of land to John A. Applegate, and bequeathed $1000 to the complainant. It next gave, for life, “ the…