Cook v. McDowell
Decision Date | 07 August 1894 |
Citation | 52 N.J.E. 351,30 A. 24 |
Parties | COOK et al. v. McDOWELL et al. |
Court | New Jersey Court of Chancery |
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Bill by Ellen P. Cook, Lewis S. Cook, and William W. Smalley, surviving executors of the estate of Lewis D. Cook, deceased, against Maggie V. D. McDowell and others, for the construction of deceased's will.
H. C. Suydam, for complainants.
McGILL, Ch. The object of the bill is to secure a construction of a portion of the will of Lewis D. Cook, deceased. Mr. Cook, domiciled at Bound Brook, in this state, died on the 25th of November, 1891. By his will, dated the 28th day of March, 1887, after appointing the executrix and executors of his will, directing the payment of his debts and funeral expenses, bequeathing to his widow his household goods, clothing, and a policy of life insurance, and devising to her a dwelling house for her life, he continued his will in this language: The testator's wife and children survived him. On the 3d of May, 1893, before there was any distribution of the father's estate, Frederick H. Cook, one of the children, died, without leaving issue, having duly made a will, in and by...
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