Gorham v. Gorham
New York Court of Chancery
This was an appeal from a decretal order of the vice chancellor of the seventh circuit. The complainants were the committee of the person and estate of an habitual drunkard.
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This was an appeal from a decretal order of the vice chancellor of the seventh circuit. The complainants were the committee of the person and estate of an habitual drunkard. And the bill in this cause was filed for the partition of lands, owned by the drunkard and the defendant as tenants in common; and also for an account and payment of the drunkard’s sitare of the rents and profits of the premises which the defendant had received, including the drunkard’s share of the wood and timber which had been taken from the premises by the defendant. The bill described the complainants as the…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
I11 some of the earlier decisions in the court of chancery, in England, it was settled that where a bill or information was filed to set aside an act done by a lunatic, upon the ground of his incompetency, it was not necessary that the lunatic himself should be made a party. The case of Attorney General v. Parkhurst, (1 Ch. Ca. 112.) which is one of the cases alluded to, was settled upon great consideration ; being first decided by Mr. Justice Tirrell, sitting for the lord -keeper, and afterwards affirmed, upon a rehearing, by Sir Orlando Bridgman, assisted by some of…
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