Schoonmaker v. Sheely
Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors
On error from the supreme court, where Schoonmaker brought ejectment against Sheely, and judgment was rendered for the defendant. The opinion given in the court below will be found in 3 Hill, 165, where the facts are stated; and they are also briefly referred to in the opinion of the chancellor in this court.
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On error from the supreme court, where Schoonmaker brought ejectment against Sheely, and judgment was rendered for the defendant. The opinion given in the court below will be found in 3 Hill, 165, where the facts are stated; and they are also briefly referred to in the opinion of the chancellor in this court. The general question was whether the devise to Benjamin Schoonmaker contained in the will of his father, Simon Schoonmaker, who died in 1827, which was in these words : “ To my son Benjamin, I do give, devise and bequeath [the premises in question.] To have and to hold [the same] unto my…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
This is an ejectment suit which depends upon the true construction of the will of Simon Schoonmaker, the paternal grandfather of the plaintiff. He made his will and died seized of the premises in fee in 1827, leaving several children who were variously provided for in his will. To his son Benjamin, who was then without issue and unmarried, he devised the premises in question generally, without words of perpetuity or inheritance; but the habendum clause of the devise was as follows: “To have and to hold the said described lots, dec. unto my said son Benjamin during his natural…
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