Lomerson v. Vroom
This text of 42 N.J. Eq. 290 (Lomerson v. Vroom) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering New Jersey Court of Chancery primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The demurrer is for want of parties. The bill is filed for the construction of a will, in and by which the testator attempts to dispose of his real and personal estate. One of the questions is whether he has succeeded in disposing of the former or not. If not, his heirs-at-law are interested. The legatees and devisees named in the will are made parties, but the heirs-at-law of the testator are not. It is said that it does not appear but what the devisees and legatees are his only heirs-at-law. This, I think, might be answered by saying that they are not made parties as heirs-at-law, but only as legatees or devisees; consequently, they would not, as heirs-at-law, be bound. I understand the rule to be that you must present the party to the court in the precise capacity in which you wish to charge or bind him. See Wade v. Miller, 3 Vr. 296 ; Kirkpatrick v. Corning, 11 Stew. Eg. 254.
The demurrer must be allowed, with costs.
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