Van Nest v. Van Nest

The will of Oliver J. Hayes, who died in 1861, is again before the court. An earlier suit for the construction of certain provisions of the will was Hayes' Executors v. Hayes, 21 N.J. Eq. 265. A partial final decree in the present suit was made on the opinion affirmed in Van Nest v. Van Nest, 126 N.J. Eq. 234.

Mr. Hayes, by the third paragraph of his will, devised a large tract of land at Springfield, Union county, in trust for his wife and his daughter Sarah for their lives, and then for Sarah's children, until the youngest should arrive at the age of twenty-one years, when the trustees were…