Brant v. Nugent

This motion is to strike the bill for want of equity. For the purposes of this motion the defendant admits it to be true as alleged, that he and the complainant Mrs. Brant, being tenants in common, in equal shares of one and thirty-four hundredths acres of land in the Newark meadows, he filed a bill for partition, and, complainants' solicitor consenting thereto, a decree for sale was entered. The selling master made the statutory publication, and on the day set adjourned the sale one week, no one being present, and on the adjourned day struck off the property to the defendant for $2,000, he…