Parker v. Travers
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On appeals of complainant-defendant Annie E. Travers, and defendant Sophie V. O’Brien, from a decree of the court of chancery advised by Vice-Chancellor Bergen, who delivered the following opinion: “James Travers died November 1st, 1883, testate, leaving him surviving a daughter, Anna E. Travers, and a widow, Sophie Y. Travers, who on August loth, 1889, married William H. O’Brien, how deceased.
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On appeals of complainant-defendant Annie E. Travers, and defendant Sophie V. O’Brien, from a decree of the court of chancery advised by Vice-Chancellor Bergen, who delivered the following opinion: “James Travers died November 1st, 1883, testate, leaving him surviving a daughter, Anna E. Travers, and a widow, Sophie Y. Travers, who on August loth, 1889, married William H. O’Brien, how deceased. When he died, J ames Travers was seized of certain real estate, situate at Point Pleasant, in this state, which may be sufficiently described as lots Nos. 4, 5, 289 and 290, on the map of lands of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Swayze, J.
There are cross appeals in this case. As far as concerns the questions presented by the petitions of appeal, we agree with the views expressed by the vice-chancellor. Through inadvertence the decree fails to follow the opinion in some respects, and in others seems to require explanation.
1. It decrees that the deed convejdng lots 4, 5, 289 and 290 *822be set aside, annulled, and made void. The opinion makes it clear that it is only void as to the equal undivided one-third of Sophie Y. O’Brien. The deed is not printed in the record, but it seems to…
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