Lippincott v. Davis
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error. Action of ejectment tried in the Burlington Circuit, before Justice Garrison, without a jury. The plaintiff below, Mrs. Davis, recovered the undivided half part of the premises. The question of title depended on the legal effect of the will of Thomas Gaskill and that of his son, Job H. Gaskill. The former will, dated January 31st, 1841, disposed of the lands in dispute in the following terms, viz.: “Item.
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On error. Action of ejectment tried in the Burlington Circuit, before Justice Garrison, without a jury. The plaintiff below, Mrs. Davis, recovered the undivided half part of the premises. The question of title depended on the legal effect of the will of Thomas Gaskill and that of his son, Job H. Gaskill. The former will, dated January 31st, 1841, disposed of the lands in dispute in the following terms, viz.: “Item. I give and bequeath to my son, Job Gaskill, my farm, of late occupied by him, situate in the township of Northampton, in the county of Burlington, with all things properly…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Beasley, Chief Justice.
This is an action of ejectment, brought by Sarah E. Davis, the defendant in error, for the half of a tract of land situated in the township of Pemberton, in the county of Burlington. The title exhibited by hel was *243that the premises in question had been the. property of one Job H. Gaskill, who, at his death, had been seized in fee, and who, as to them, had died intestate, and that she was one of his two heirs-at-law, and as such was entitled to the one moiety thereof.
To this assertion of title the plaintiffs in error…
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