Sterry v. Arden
New York Court of Chancery
LOUISA ANN, one of the plaintiffs in this case, and one of the daughters of James Arden, and Robert Sterry, her husband, filed their bill to obtain the benefit of a convéyance made to the defendants, Richard D. Arden and Be Wilt Clinton, in trust for her, by her father, James■ Arden, and for an account.
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LOUISA ANN, one of the plaintiffs in this case, and one of the daughters of James Arden, and Robert Sterry, her husband, filed their bill to obtain the benefit of a convéyance made to the defendants, Richard D. Arden and Be Wilt Clinton, in trust for her, by her father, James■ Arden, and for an account. The circumstances attending the execution and delivery of this deed are the same as those stated in the preceding case, in regard to the deed to the plaintiff’s sister, Eliza B. Arden ; and which it is, therefore, unnecessary to repeat. The circumstances peculiar to this case, stated in the…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The same questions arise in this case as in that of Souverbye and wife v. J. Arden and others,* on the delivery of the deed. The two deeds were drawn and executed together, and their history is, in all respects, the same. The proof, then, in each cause, is the same, to every essential purpose ; and though Bleecker, one of the subscribing witnesses to each deed, was not examined in this last case, yet his testimony, and that of the other witnesses *267iti the other cause, applies equally to the execution and disposal of deeds, and it was averred upon the argument, that the…
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