Rambo v. Rumer
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Bill in Equity —The facts alleged by the bill and admitted by the answer were as follows: Henry Rumer died January 29, 1865, having made his will, dated the 22d of the same month, and the same after his death was duly proved.
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Bill in Equity —The facts alleged by the bill and admitted by the answer were as follows: Henry Rumer died January 29, 1865, having made his will, dated the 22d of the same month, and the same after his death was duly proved. In it he devised in these words ;—“ And as to my" worldly estate, and all the “property, real, personal and mixed of which I shall “ die seized and possessed, or to which I shall be entitled “at the time of my decease, I devise, bequeath and “ dispose of in the manner following, to wit : “First, my will is, that all- my just debts and funeral “ expenses shall, by my…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor :—
The object of this bill is to obtain a decree declaring certain legacies bequeathed by the will of Henry Rumer, deceased, to be charged on his real estate, also directing .a sale by the executor of the real estate, the proceeds to be applied first to the payment of the debts of the testator, (he having left no personal estate,) and the balance to be applied to the legacies, pro rata, if insufficient to pay the whole, the decree also to determine whether, if the proceeds of the real estate are sufficient to pay the whole of the legacies, the two legacies to the testator’s…
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