Penrose v. Absecon Land Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

This is an appeal from a final decree of the court of chancery in a suit to quiet title under the statute (Comp. Stat. p. 5399 et seq.) based on a previous decree in the cause which directed the answers filed! by the defendants to be struck out, and that the bill be 'taken as confessed. The grounds for that decree, as recited therein, are that the title involved was settled adversely to the defendants’ claim in two^ cases in the supreme court, and also in a former case in the court of chancery (both identified by name), and that the matter…