Legal Opinion

First Baptist Church v. Syms

New Jersey Court of Chancery

Decided May 15, 1893PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Final hearing upon bill, answer, replication and proofs.

1Opinion of the Court

The Chancellor.

Samuel R. Syms died at his residence in West Hoboken, in this state, in Fovember, 1891, leaving a will which bears date *364•one month before his death, in and by which he first directed that his debts be paid, and then gave to his wife his household furniture and personal effects, and to certain nieces, nephews and cousins, pecuniary legacies aggregating in amount $10,000. Then he bequeathed eighty shares of the capital stock of the First National Bank of Hoboken to the cashier of that bank, in trust for specified objects, and then gave to the-complainant a pecuniary legacy of…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Beckett v. SeloverCalifornia Supreme Court · 1857
  2. Stone v. WoodIllinois Supreme Court · 1854
  3. Hooper v. HooperWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1889
  4. Delaware River Quarry & Construction Co. v. Board of Chosen FreeholdersNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1918
  5. Robertson v. WrightSupreme Court of Virginia · 1867

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3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Second National Bank of Phila. v. ThompsonNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1947
  2. Morris County B. L. Assn. v. WaltersNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1937
  3. Skinner v. ReinhardtNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1931

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