Legal Opinion

Wright v. Keasbey

New Jersey Court of Chancery

Decided February 17, 1917PublishedCited by 5 opinions

On bill, &e.

1Opinion of the Court

Stevens, Y. C.

This is a bill for the construction of the will of Mrs. Dora Mason Wright. She left a considerable estate, real and 'personal, the realty consisting of many separate parcels. The question is whether, the will contains, by implication, a power of sale.

By the first clause she provides for the payment of her debts: by the second she directs that all her estate, real, personal and mixed, be divided into six equal parts. Three of these parts she gives out and out, one to her • son William Mason Wright, another to her son Edward H. Wright, Jr., and a third to her daughter Dora W.…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. State v. O'NeilTennessee Supreme Court · 1850

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Griggs v. VeghteNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1890
  2. Cooper v. CooperNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1897
  3. Freeland v. MandevilleNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1877
  4. Keep v. MillerNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1886
  5. Wright v. WrightNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1930

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