Keen v. Executors of James
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeal from a decree advised by Barker Gummere, Esq., advisory master, whose opinion follows: The causes above stated were referred to me, as advisory master, for hearing, and by consent of counsel in open court were heard together; the proofs and exhibits taken and offered being evidence in each and all of the causes, so far as relevant in each.
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On appeal from a decree advised by Barker Gummere, Esq., advisory master, whose opinion follows: The causes above stated were referred to me, as advisory master, for hearing, and by consent of counsel in open court were heard together; the proofs and exhibits taken and offered being evidence in each and all of the causes, so far as relevant in each. I therefore, upon said proofs and exhibits, report to the chancellor my findings of fact and of law, and the decree which I advise to be made in each of said causes. 1. I find, as matter of fact, as follows: William James, in his lifetime and at…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by.
Dixon, J.
The facts in this case proved by direct evidence are: That. William James, at his death, owned one hundred shares of the capital stock of the Mechanics National Bank of Newark; that he died in January, 1881, leaving a will, in which he named his widow, Elizabeth James, George F. Tuttle and Oscar F. Baldwin as his executors, who, in February, 1881, took out letters testamentary upon his estate; that then, and for many year’s before, and afterwards, till its close on October 31st, 1881, Baldwin was cashier of the bank, and during a period of…
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