Eggers v. Anderson
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal from a decree advised by Vice-Chancellor Pitney, whose opinion is reported in 16 Dick. Oh. Rep. 86.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Dixon, J.
The complainants, a band of charitable young women styling themselves “The Ever Ready Circle of King’s Daughters,” began in the year 1892 to assist Mrs. Minna Stager, an old German woman living in apparent destitution, and continued doing so until her death in January, 1900. In the year 1897, something ' (it does not appear what) led them to suspect that perhaps she was not really destitute, and they asked her to make a will in their favor. She having consented, the husband of one of them, a lawyer, prepared a will bequeathing all her property…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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