Content v. Dalton

The bill is to quiet title to certain lands in Monmouth county. Of the sixteen defendants, only six answered, and a default decree was entered against the ten non-answering defendants on May 11th, 1936, on the advice of an advisory master. The answering defendants Helen B. Small, James G. Beattie, Jr., and Margaret B. Palmer each claim an undivided remainder interest in the premises described in the bill of complaint by virtue of the will of their grandfather, Robert J. Dalton. The answering defendants Fred G. Small and Prescott W. Palmer each claim an inchoate right of curtesy in the shares…