Legal Opinion

Blauvelt v. Van Winkle

New Jersey Court of Chancery

Decided February 15, 1878PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Bill for relief. On final hearing on pleadings and proofs.

1Opinion of the Court

The Chancellor.

Lavinia Westervelt, late of Bergen county, deceased, by her will, made in 1868, after giving to her daughter, Mrs. Belinda Van Winkle, in fee, all her lands, tenements, hereditaments, and real estate whatever and wheresoever, subject to the charges imposed thereon in the will, gave to her granddaughter, the complainant, $1Q,000, to be paid to her at the age of twenty-one years. She then gave to her executors (her daughter Belinda, Rev. Cornelius Blauvelt, father of the complainant, and the defendant, John W. Van Winkle, son of her daughter Belinda), whom she thereby appointed…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Margate Co. v. HandNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1916
  2. Swarthout v. . CurtisNew York Court of Appeals · 1851

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Rutherford Nat. Bank v. H.R. Bogle Co.New Jersey Court of Chancery · 1933
  2. Feldman v. WarshawskyNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1937

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