Job Haines Home for Aged People v. Keene

Foster, Y. C.

This is an action to quiet complainant’s title to certain property in the city of Newark used as a home for aged people.

The premises in question were part of the real estate devised *510by the last will of Joseph Crane, which was probated October, 1832, to his son and four daughters. Phoebe Keene, one of the daughters, thus acquired an undivided one-fifth interest in the property, and by a. deed dated October 15th, 1832, the other devisees conveyed their undivided four-fifths interest to said Phoebe Keene and Alfred Keene, her husband.

By his will, Alfred Keene, who died in 1880,…