Sloan v. Maxwell
New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division
This cause came before the court upon an appeal from a decree of the orphans’ court of the county of Hunterdon, denying probate of an instrument propounded as the last will and testament of John Maxwell, late of the county of Hunterdon. The will was executed in the mouth of August, eighteen hundred and twenty-live, and the testator died in February, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, at the age of eighty-eight years. The will was exhibited for probate by William II.
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This cause came before the court upon an appeal from a decree of the orphans’ court of the county of Hunterdon, denying probate of an instrument propounded as the last will and testament of John Maxwell, late of the county of Hunterdon. The will was executed in the mouth of August, eighteen hundred and twenty-live, and the testator died in February, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, at the age of eighty-eight years. The will was exhibited for probate by William II. Sloan, one of the executors named therein; and a caveat against proving the same was filed by John S. Maxwell and others. On the…
1Opinion of the Court
.Opinion.. .John Maxwell, of Flemington, in the county of Hunterdon, died in -the month of February, eighteen hundred ¡and twenty-eight, at >the .advanced age of .eighty-eight years. During the greater part of ;hjs life he had resided in the county ■of Sussex, where he was distinguished for industry, integrity, .usefulness, and consequent respectability. He bore arms for his country in her contest for independence, and afterwards, in common with his eopatriots and fellow-citizens, enjoyed and appreciated the rights and privileges won by their wisdom and valor .and sufferings. Besides a…
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