Dennis v. Dennis
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal of Mary Elizabeth Dennis et al. from a decree advised by Vice-Chancellor Howell, who filed the following opinion: The bill in this case was filed to obtain a construction of the will of Alfred L. Dennis, late of Newark, who died December 8th, 1890. He left four sons and one daughter, whose names are, respectively, James S. Dennis, Frederick S. Dennis, Samuel S. Dennis, Warren E. Dennis and Mary Louise Bell.
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On appeal of Mary Elizabeth Dennis et al. from a decree advised by Vice-Chancellor Howell, who filed the following opinion: The bill in this case was filed to obtain a construction of the will of Alfred L. Dennis, late of Newark, who died December 8th, 1890. He left four sons and one daughter, whose names are, respectively, James S. Dennis, Frederick S. Dennis, Samuel S. Dennis, Warren E. Dennis and Mary Louise Bell. At the time of the testator’s death his son James S. had one son, Alfred L. P. Dennis, the defendant, a grandson of the testator, and he in turn now has two infant daughters,…
1Per curiam
We conclude that the decree below should be affirmed, and substantially for the reasons contained in the opinion of the- learned vice-chancellor, though we are hardly willing to concede that testator’s intent could not have been expressed more certainly or intelligibly.
Appellants urge that the vice-chancellor did not allude to the decision in Inglis v. McCook, 68 N. J. Eq. 27, and that the decision in that case must be overruled in order to reach an affirmance herein.
Applying the fundamental rules that the testator’s intention is to be gathered from a reading of the entire will, and that such…
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