In re Devausney
New Jersey Court of Chancery
An inquisition has been returned into this court finding that Sarah H. Devausney was, at the time of taking the inquisition, a lunatic and of unsound mind, so that she is incapable of the-government of herself, her lands, tenements, goods and chattels, and that she has been in the same state of lunacy for the space-of twenty-five years last past, and that, at the time of the said inquisition, she was entitled to a one equal seventh part of the-personal estate of her father,…
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An inquisition has been returned into this court finding that Sarah H. Devausney was, at the time of taking the inquisition, a lunatic and of unsound mind, so that she is incapable of the-government of herself, her lands, tenements, goods and chattels, and that she has been in the same state of lunacy for the space-of twenty-five years last past, and that, at the time of the said inquisition, she was entitled to a one equal seventh part of the-personal estate of her father, Jacob S. Wanness, deceased, and also seized of and entitled to a one equal seventh part of two tracts of land in Hudson…
1Opinion of the Court
Green, W. C.
The jurisdiction of the court to institute the ‘proceedings de lunático inquirendo is challenged on the ground that, although the alleged lunatic is seized of and entitled to real and personal estate in New Jersey, she is not a citizen of or resident in this state, but is a citizen of and resident in New York.
In Matter of Perkins, 2 Johns. Ch. 124, Chancellor Kent directed a commission to issue to inquire into the alleged lunacy of Daniel Perldns, of Bridgewater, in the State of Massachusetts, who was stated in the petition to be the owner of lands in New York, the chancellor…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- In re PetitNew York Court of Chancery · 1830
- In re PerkinsNew York Court of Chancery · 1816
- In re GanseNew York Court of Chancery · 1842
- Yucker v. MorrisSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1916
- In re FowlerNew York Court of Chancery · 1847
3Cited by3 opinions
- In Re Estate of GillmoreNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1968
- In Re OswaldNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1942
- In Re HarrisNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1926