Chambers v. Kunzman
New Jersey Court of Chancery
On bill, answer and proofs. The complainant is administrator of the estate of Susan Ferguson. In her lifetime, on May 16th, 1893, George Kunzman, the defendant, advanced to Miss Ferguson, on her four separate bonds and mortgages, covering four separate lots of land in Atlantic county, four separate sums of money to the amount of $1,500 each. The bonds and mortgages were all dated April 12th, 1893, and were all payable at the expiration of three years, with interest.
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On bill, answer and proofs. The complainant is administrator of the estate of Susan Ferguson. In her lifetime, on May 16th, 1893, George Kunzman, the defendant, advanced to Miss Ferguson, on her four separate bonds and mortgages, covering four separate lots of land in Atlantic county, four separate sums of money to the amount of $1,500 each. The bonds and mortgages were all dated April 12th, 1893, and were all payable at the expiration of three years, with interest. In order further to indemnify Kunzman against loss, Miss Ferguson assigned him an additional bond and mortgage, made by one…
1Opinion of the Court
Grey, V. C.
At the hearing of this cause the defendant did not appear. It had previously been postponed at his instance. The vice-chancellor was satisfied that the defendant’s absence was voluntary, and for the purpose of delaying the trial of the cause for his own benefit, and the hearing having been properly noticed, the cause *436was for this reason heard, notwithstanding the defendant’s absence. His counsel has filed a brief contesting the complainant’s right to relief, insisting, among other things, that in view of the fact that both the complainant and defendant reside out of the state, and…
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