Woodruff v. Woodruff

The Chancellor.

George Woodruff, the complainant’s father, died in 1846, ■seized and possessed of a farm near Trenton, called “ Oaklands.” During the previous year he made his last will, by which he devised the possession and use of the farm to his wife, Jean Woodruff, for the mutual benefit of herself and the testator’s son, Patrick Houstoun Woodruff, during the wife’s life, and after ■her death, to his four sons, Patrick, Robert, Thomas and Dickinson, in fee as tenants in common, charging the farm, however, with the payment of one-fifth its value for the benefit of his ■daughter Mary. After…