Wooster v. Cooper
New Jersey Court of Chancery
On cross-bill, answer and proofs.. This cause has now come to a hearing on the amended cross-bill of Isaac Copper, and the answer thereto of Charles I. Wooster as defendant.
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On cross-bill, answer and proofs.. This cause has now come to a hearing on the amended cross-bill of Isaac Copper, and the answer thereto of Charles I. Wooster as defendant. Mr. Wooster filed the original bill in this cause as complainant, as one of the executors of the will of Benjamin D. Cooper,, and executor and residuary legatee and devisee of Tacy Cooper,, against Isaac Cooper and others, who claimed, under the will of Benjamin D. Cooper, property which' Mr. Wooster alleged had passed by Tacy Cooper’s will to him. The original bill sets forth in full the will of Benjamin D. Cooper. The…
1Opinion of the Court
Grey, V. C.
This cause came to the present hearing upon the amended cross-bill of Isaac Cooper (one of the defendants in the original bill), and the answer of Charles I. Wooster (the complainant in the original bill) to that amended cross-bill.
The first question presented is the contention of the complainant in the cross-bill, that the matters now sought to be litigated have already been determined by the previous decree made -in this cause on October 17th, 1895, and by the above-cited judgments in the supreme court and in the court of errors.
The due consideration of this dispute requires an…
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