Wright v. Miller
New York Court of Chancery
The original bill was filed March 22, 1836, by Benjamin Wright and Eliza his wife, and Charles W. Miller, against Ezra W. Miller, Hannah Miller, formerly his wife, Ezra Miller, Joseph Miller, Albert A. Westervelt, and Robert Campbell. Mrs. Wright and Charles W., Ezra, and Joseph Miller, were children of Ezra W. and Hannah Miller, and were born in 1811,1812,1813, and 1814, respectively.
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The original bill was filed March 22, 1836, by Benjamin Wright and Eliza his wife, and Charles W. Miller, against Ezra W. Miller, Hannah Miller, formerly his wife, Ezra Miller, Joseph Miller, Albert A. Westervelt, and Robert Campbell. Mrs. Wright and Charles W., Ezra, and Joseph Miller, were children of Ezra W. and Hannah Miller, and were born in 1811,1812,1813, and 1814, respectively. Hannah Miller, who, before her marriage to E. W. M., was Hannah Ryerson, had a large real estate in the city of New-York, and some lands elsewhere, by a devise from her grandfather, Samuel Ellis, who died in…
1Opinion of the Court
The Assistant Vice-Chancellor.
This controversy depends almost exclusively upon the pleadings and the documentary evidence; and the great mass of the oral testimony taken in the two suits, by which the parties have fully succeeded in blackening the character of the two heads of their family, and exhibiting their depravity to the public gaze, has no bearing upon the merits of the case. It is a relief to be spared from further examination of its disgusting disclosures.
*109I will first consider the claim made by the original bill, in behalf of the children of Ezra W. and Hannah Miller.
And the first…
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