Personette v. Pryme

The Chancellor.

The complainant’s intestate, Dr. Stephen Personette, and the-defendant, Anna L. Pryme, his niece, were the owners in equal shares in fee of a farm in Essex county. Their title was derived under the will of Joseph Personette, deceased, who thereby gave the property to his son Jephthah, who, after the death of the testator, died intestate, without issue, and unmarried, and on his-death Dr. Personette, his only brother, and Miss Pryme, the only child of his only sister (who was then dead), inherited the property. By the will, the testator directed his executors to furnish his…