Supreme Court of New Jersey, 1935

In re the appeal from each & every part of a decree entered in the Middlesex county orphans court by the Honorable Lyon

In re the appeal from each & every part of a decree entered in the Middlesex county orphans court by the Honorable Lyon
Supreme Court of New Jersey · Decided October 9, 1935
119 N.J. Eq. 82

In re the appeal from each & every part of a decree entered in the Middlesex county orphans court by the Honorable Lyon

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

Reserving the question whether the next of kin may recover their shares from the administrator “in chancery only,” the decree appealed from is affirmed, for the reasons stated in the opinion of the late and venerable jurist, Vice-Chancellor John H. Backes, as vice-ordinary, and reported in 116 N. J. Eq. 259.

With the stated reservation the decree is affirmed.

For affirmance—The Chief-Justice, Trenchard, Parker, Lloyd, Case, Bodine, Donges, Heher, Perskie, Van Buskirk, Dear, Wells, JJ. 12.

For reversal—None.

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