Lippincott v. Smith
New Jersey Court of Chancery
In partition. On exceptions to master’s report. In this case lands situate in Camden county have been sold and the proceeds of sale distributed by a decree dated the 22d day of December, 1904, except the portion thereof arising from the sale of the share of the defendant Joseph A. Burroughs, which portion by the same decree has been directed to be paid into this court to abide the chancellor’s order as to its further disposition.
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In partition. On exceptions to master’s report. In this case lands situate in Camden county have been sold and the proceeds of sale distributed by a decree dated the 22d day of December, 1904, except the portion thereof arising from the sale of the share of the defendant Joseph A. Burroughs, which portion by the same decree has been directed to be paid into this court to abide the chancellor’s order as to its further disposition. By the master’s report and the testimony thereto' annexed, it appears that Mary Anna Burroughs was seized in fee of an undivided one-fifth part of the premises sold;…
1Opinion of the Court
Grey, Y. C.
It appears in proof that Mary A. Burroughs, in 1873, while seized of a fee-simple estate in her share of the lands sold in this suit, conveyed to her mother, Ann W. Smith, an estate therein during her (Ann’s) life. The Rachel Burroughs judgment against Mary A. Burroughs was entered in 1897, and then became a lien upon the fee-simple estate which remained in the defendant in that judgment, Mary A. Burroughs, but subject to the life estate of Ann W. Smith, previously conveyed to her by Mary A. Burroughs. This life estate terminated upon Ann W. Smith’s death in 1902.
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