Griscom v. Evens
Supreme Court of New Jersey
In ejectment. On rule to show cause why a verdict should not be set aside.. Thomas Evens, deceased, the father of the defendant, died: April 18th, 1869, seized of several tracts of land in the counties of Burlington and Camden, leaving four sons, Samuel B., William B., Jacob L., and Thomas, his heirs-at-law.
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In ejectment. On rule to show cause why a verdict should not be set aside.. Thomas Evens, deceased, the father of the defendant, died: April 18th, 1869, seized of several tracts of land in the counties of Burlington and Camden, leaving four sons, Samuel B., William B., Jacob L., and Thomas, his heirs-at-law. By the-second, third and fifth subdivisions of his will, dated March. 22d, 1867, he devised to his sons Samuel, William and Jacob,, respectively, certain of his farms and lots. By the fourth subdivision he devised to the same three sons, in trust for his son'Thomas, the defendant, “ all…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Depue, J.
The controversy in this case relates to the equal .undivided one-fourth part of the fourteen and seventy-three hundredths acres, which the testator purchased of Lippencott. It is conceded that the premises in question passed under the residuary devise, if they were not specifically devised to 'Thomas by the first paragraph of the fourth subdivision of the will; and that, if the fourteen and seventy-three hundredths .acres passed under the residuary devise to the testator’s four children, the deed from Samuel conveyed the one-fourth part…
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