Meriam v. Harsen
New York Court of Chancery
This was an appeal from a decree of the late vice chancellor of the first circuit. Cornelius Cozine the elder, who died in 1765, owned a farm at Bloomingdale, containing about 100 acres. By his will he devised it to his five children, Garret, Cornelius, Balaam Johnson, Margaret, the wife of N. Fletcher, and Sarah, the wife of W. Swanston; and the location of the part intended for each was stated in the will.
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This was an appeal from a decree of the late vice chancellor of the first circuit. Cornelius Cozine the elder, who died in 1765, owned a farm at Bloomingdale, containing about 100 acres. By his will he devised it to his five children, Garret, Cornelius, Balaam Johnson, Margaret, the wife of N. Fletcher, and Sarah, the wife of W. Swanston; and the location of the part intended for each was stated in the will. He also owned four lots in Fair-street, now Fulton-street, in the city of New-York; which he devised to his five children equally. But his will contained a contingent limitation over to…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
There' is nothing: in this case from: which any court could' be authorized to infer*that the deed ef May, 1790, from Jacob'Harsen áfídíhis wife- te GíáBrier Furm an; ■ was obtained by the- husband by any baud or undue* means p or by taking am unconseientious- advantage of her situation;, and of the -confidence- which she reposed: id Mm. It: was not* the cáse- of a fortune-hunter' manying" are heiress,- and them taking" advantage: of her confidence im him;-even during the-honey-moon, to-defraud her of her* property. Although the: property embraced im that deed? has-…
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