Wootton v. Pollock

Annie E. Wagner, during her lifetime, executed a bond and mortgage on real estate in Atlantic City to Mary A. Wootton. Thereafter, Mrs. Wagner conveyed the fee in the mortgaged premises to the defendant Pollock, who assumed and undertook to pay the mortgage indebtedness. Thereafter, Mrs. Wootton died and complainants were appointed administrators cum testamentoannexo.

After the conveyance to Pollock, Mrs. Wagner died, testate, and by her last will and testament bequeathed $5,000 to a niece, Mae M. Bachman, and all the rest, residue and remainder of her estate, real, personal and mixed, to…