Legal Opinion

Camden Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Guerin

Supreme Court of New Jersey

Decided November 18, 1918PublishedCited by 18 opinions

On appeal from a decree in chancery advised by Vice-Chancellor Learning and reported in 87 N. J. Eq. 72.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Berger, J.

This appeal presents the question whether the vice-chancellor, who advised the decree appealed from, properly construed the last will and testament of Joseph O. Cuthbert. The will vests in trustees, for whom the complainant has been lawfully substituted, the title to the corpus of the residue of the testator’s estate, subject to a trust to pay the income for life in equal fifth parts to his children, Mary O. Gillespie, Joseph, Allen and Henry C., and one-tenth each to his granddaughter Mary Rue and her mother, the widow of testator’s son…

2Cited by18 opinions

  1. Brown v. Fidelity Union Trust Co.New Jersey Court of Chancery · 1939
  2. Westfield Trust Co. v. BeekmanNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1925
  3. Central Hanover Bank Trust Co. v. HelmeNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1937
  4. National State Bank of Newark v. MorrisonNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1950
  5. Ampere Bank and Trust Co. v. EsterlyNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1946

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