Van Houten v. Van Winkle

The Chancellor.

The object of the bill is to reform one deed and to set aside ■another. The allegations of the bill present the following facts:

The complainant’s father, James Van Blarcom, who was a resident of the city of Paterson, died in the year 1850, intestate, leaving surviving him his widow and four daughters. When he died he was seized of several parcels of real estate in Paterson. Shortly after his death his widow released her dower in his lands to her four daughters. Within a month after this release the daughters, by interchanging deeds, executed by them ■and their respective…