Weehawken Ferry Co. v. Sisson
Supreme Court of New Jersey
This was an appeal from a decree qf the Chancellor, The opinion- is reported in 2 Beasley 16.8. On the 10th of August, 1807, Mindert Garrabrants (2d) executed to the father and brother of his wife a conveyance in fee of all his lands, including those claimed by the respondents. The conveyance was upon certain trusts, therein specified.
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This was an appeal from a decree qf the Chancellor, The opinion- is reported in 2 Beasley 16.8. On the 10th of August, 1807, Mindert Garrabrants (2d) executed to the father and brother of his wife a conveyance in fee of all his lands, including those claimed by the respondents. The conveyance was upon certain trusts, therein specified. In the following year he exhibited his bill in Chancery, setting up a mistake in the limitations of the trusts, and on the 9th of September, 1808, a decree was made, vacating the deed, and directing him to convey the premises, in a certain specified time, to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
The Chief Justice.
Both parties to this controversy claim title to the premises in question, by force of the limitations of trusts created by Mindert Garrabrants (2d), and the question, therefore, is as to the just construction and legal effect of those limitations.
The appellants’ title is derived from the deeds of conveyance executed by Mindert Garrabrants (3d), while the re*478spondents, the two daughters of Mindert (3d), claim through the conveyance made to them by the heir of the survivor of the trustees, in pursuance, as they allege, of the terms of…
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