Benjamin v. Van Voorhis

The appeal in this case is taken from a final decree dismissing the bill of complaint. The suit was instituted to compel the specific performance of an agreement entered into between the complainant and the defendants relating to the disposition of the estate of the widow of the defendant George H. Van Voorhis, the complainant and the other defendants being the children of George H. Van Voorhis’ deceased wife. Answers having been filed to the complainant’s bill the case at the request of complainant’s counsel was set down for hearing specially on the first day of November, 1928. On the day…