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Central Railroad v. N. J. West Line Railroad
32 N.J. Eq. 67 · New Jersey Court of Chancery · Feb 15, 1880
North Bank v. Brown, 50 Me. 214 ; also, Baxley v. Linah, 16 Pa. St. 241; Paine v. Schenectady Ins. Co., 11 R. I. 411. … Pl. § 736 ; Way v. Bragaw, 1 C. E. Gr. 213; Conover’s Ex’r v. Conover, Sax. 403 ; McEwan v. Broadhead, 3 Stock. 129 ; Moore v. Grubbs, 3 B. Mon. (Ky.) 77 ; Brown v. Wallace, 2 Bland 585 , 601.
Cited 0 timesPublished32 N.J. Eq. 231 · New Jersey Court of Chancery · Feb 15, 1880
He wanted to' board with their son, and she wanted to keep house, and* because he would not submit to her will in this respect, she left him. … Bowlby v. Bowlby, 10 C. E. Gr. 406; S. C. on appeal, 10 C. E. Gr. 570; Taylor v. Taylor, 1 Stew. 207 ; Cornish v. Cornish, 8 C. E. Gr. 208.
Cited 0 timesPublished78 N.J. Eq. 445 · New Jersey Court of Chancery · Mar 4, 1911
Leaming, V. C. … Brown v. Lippincott, 49 N. J. Eq. (4 Dick.) 44; Fischer v. Fischer, 75 N. J. Eq. (5 Buch.) 74.
Cited 32 timesPublished93 N.J. Eq. 556 · New Jersey Court of Chancery · Jul 18, 1922
In our state the divorce act expressly provides that a divorce from bed and board may be decreed for extreme cruelty in either of the parties. P. L. 1907 p. 474 § 2. In Csanyi v. Csanyi, 93 N. J. … Cook v. Cook, 32 N. J. Eq. 475. See, also, Crane v. Crane, 62 N. J. Eq. 21, 26; Rogers v. Rogers, 81 N. J. Eq. 479, 484.
Cited 6 timesPublished42 N.J. Eq. 586 · New Jersey Court of Chancery · Feb 15, 1887
I submit a few of the cases in our own reports: Graham v. Berryman, 4 C. E. Gr. 29; Paulison v. Van Iderstine, 1 Stew. Eq. 306 ; Rowley v. Flannelly, 3 Stew. Eq. 612; Ramsey v. Smith, 5 Stew. Eq. 28; Doniol v. … Eq. 30; Cummins v. Bulgin, 10 Stew. Eq. 476.
Cited 1 timesPublished96 N.J. Eq. 135 · New Jersey Court of Chancery · Jul 9, 1924
Hewitt v. Green, 77 N.J. Eq. 345 , 355 ; Burrwell v. Mandeville's Ex'r ( 1844 ), 2 How. 560 ; Hardacre v. Nash, 5 T.R. 716; 101 Eng. Reprint 398; Hope, ex dem. Brown v. Taylor, 1 Burr. 269; 97 Eng. … Reprint 308; Aitken v. Sharp, 93 N.J. Eq. 336 , 346 . Counsel for complainant says that testator had a definite scheme for disposing of his estate.
Cited 17 timesPublished99 N.J. Eq. 135 · New Jersey Court of Chancery · Mar 26, 1926
On this question see notes contained in Lawyers' Reports Annotated to Irving v. Ford, 65 L.R.A. 177 ; to Brown v. Finley, 21 L.R.A. ( N.S. ) 679 , and to Anderson v. French ( 1916A. ), L.R.A. 666. The cases of Ross v. … Ross (cited in Dayton v. Adkisson, supra ) and Miller v. Miller, 91 N.Y. 315 , rest squarely upon the application of the rule of comity.
Cited 9 timesPublished40 N.J. Eq. 364 · New Jersey Court of Chancery · Oct 15, 1885
. — Held, that the record of the mortgage was not notice of the unrecorded deed ; also, Pierce v. Taylor, Id. 846; Brown- v. … Ch. 125 ; Jumel v. Jumel, 7 Paige 591 ; Russell v. Allen, 10 Paige 249 .
Cited 3 timesPublishedSt. John the Baptist, C., Church v. Gengor
118 N.J. Eq. 467 · New Jersey Court of Chancery · Jul 26, 1935
Stuart v. Palmer, 74 N.Y. 183 ; Gilman v. Tucker, 128 N.Y. 190 . … And in Addoms v.
Cited 8 timesPublished99 N.J. Eq. 592 · New Jersey Court of Chancery · May 18, 1926
Kent v. Armstrong, 6 N.J. Eq. 637 ; Cantine v. Brown, 46 N.J. Law 599 ; Kellers v. Kellers, 79 N.J. Eq. 412 ; S.C., on appeal, 80 N.J. Eq. 441 . … Dutch Church v. Smock, supra; Downey v. Borden, supra; Benz v. Fabian, supra; Tuerk v. Schueler, supra; *Page 597 McCloskey v. Thorpe, supra; Huston v. Boyd, supra; Hyde v. Hyde, supra , and Boohm v.
Cited 24 timesPublishedBoulton v. Administrators of Scott
3 N.J. Eq. 231 · New Jersey Court of Chancery · Jul 15, 1835
Vide Barnesley v. Powell, 1 Vesey, 289. Awards, if fraudulently obtained, may be set aside in equity: Brown v. *237 Brown, 1 Vernon, 157, and the cases there cited, (Raithby’s «edition.) … Argum. v. 2, 392 ; McKenzie v. Stewart, Dom. Proc. 1754 ; Cruise Dig. Tit. 33; Private Act, 50, 51.
Cited 6 timesPublishedLora Lee Dress Co. v. International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Local No. 85
127 N.J. Eq. 564 · New Jersey Court of Chancery · Jul 5, 1940
Eq. 131; Elkind & Sons, Inc., v. Retail Clerks International Protective Association, 114 N. J. Eq. 586; Bayonne Textile Corp. v. American Federation of Silk Workers, 116 N. J. Eq. 146, 161; International Ticket Co. v. … Feller v. Local 144, &c., 121 N. J. Eq. 452.
Cited 1 timesPublished3 N.J. Eq. 454 · New Jersey Court of Chancery · Oct 15, 1844
In Tweddell v. Tweddell, 2 Brown's C. … In Stevenson and Woodruff v. Black, Saxton 342, the principal of the case of Waring v. Ward and Tweddell v.
Cited 0 timesPublished10 N.J. Misc. 675 · New Jersey Court of Chancery · May 9, 1932
American Association, Ltd., v . Innis (Ky.), 60 S. W. Rep. 388 . In Woodward v. Woodward, 41 N. J. Eq. 224; 4 Atl. … Rep. 373 ; Gluck v. Rynda Development Co., 99 N. J. Eq. 788; 134 Atl. Rep. 363 , and Pfender v. Pfender, 104 N. J. Eq. 107; 144 Atl.
Cited 3 timesPublished79 N.J. Eq. 24 · New Jersey Court of Chancery · Jun 15, 1911
For purpose's of divorce, either absolute or from -bed and board, jurisdiction may be acquired by personal service of process upon the defendant within this state, under the following- conditions: *26 “(a) When, at the time … The remaining sections of the act, with the exception of section 33, relate to “Procedure and Practice,” subdivision IV., sections 9-24; “Alimony and Maintenance,” subdivision V., sections 25-j21'; “Miscellaneous Provisions
Cited 14 timesPublishedTown of Kearny v. New Jersey Suburban Water Co.
10 N.J. Misc. 1015 · New Jersey Court of Chancery · Sep 2, 1932
from the East Jersey Water Company (now Passaic Consolidated Water Company) at $56.25 and they furnished it to Kearny and adjoining municipalities at $82.50 per million gallons; that in March, as of January 1st, 1923, the board … The question of interest on the balance found by the master to be due the water companies was settled in an earlier opinion (Kearny v. New Jersey Suburban Water Co., 110 N. J. Eq. 214; 159 Atl. Rep. 520 ).
Cited 2 timesPublishedWeller v. Jersey City, Hoboken & Paterson Street Railway Co.
66 N.J. Eq. 11 · New Jersey Court of Chancery · Apr 12, 1904
Jones on Liens 140, 149; Terney v. Wilson, 16 Vr. 282 ; Phillips v. Mackay, 25 Vr. 319 ; Barnes v. Taylor, 3 Stew. Eq. 467; Middlesex Freeholders v. State Bank, 11 Stew. Eq. 36. … Ten Eyck v. Runk, 2 Vr. 428 ; Hayden v. Vreeland, 8 Vr. 372 ; Noice, Admr., v. Brown, 10 Vr. 569; Tichenor v. Hayes, 12 Vr. 193 .
Cited 8 timesPublished52 N.J. Eq. 611 · New Jersey Court of Chancery · May 15, 1894
Leg. 316; Lynde v. Estabrook, 7 Allen 68 , 72; Hunter v. Green, 22 Ala. 329 ; Weeks v. Jewett, 45 N. H. 540; Executors of Howe v. White, 1 C. E. Gr. 411, 416. … Jur. § 546; Frey v. Demarest, 1 C. E. Gr. 236, 239; Kennedy v. Cresswell, 101 U. S. 641 ; 2 Wms. Ex. 1718, 1719; Thompson v. Brown, 4, Johns. Ch. 619, 631.
Cited 2 timesPublishedPresbyterian Church v. Plainfield Trust
139 N.J. Eq. 501 · New Jersey Court of Chancery · Apr 5, 1947
Brown *Page 505 v. Fidelity Union Trust Co., 128 N.J. Eq. 197 ; 15 Atl. Rep. 2d 788. The answers of Mr. Fisher and of the executors-trustees collectively project three cardinal points entirely legalistic in character. … Hallett ( 1784 ), 1 Cox 134; Torrey Gilbert v. The Bank of Orleans Clark ( N.Y., 1842 ), 9 Paige 649 ; affirmed, 7 Hill 260 ; Terwilliger v. Brown, 44 N.Y. 237 ; De Vaughn v. Griffith, 149 Ga. 697 ; 101 S.E.
Cited 1 timesPublished105 N.J. Eq. 389 · New Jersey Court of Chancery · Nov 5, 1929
In Isserman v. … See, also, Ohio and Mississippi Railway Co. v. McCarthy, 96 U.S. 258 ; 24 L.Ed. 693 ; Cowdery v. Greenlee, 126 Ga. 786 ; 8 L.R.A. ( N.S. ) 137; Gibson v. Brown, 214 Ill. 330 ; 73 N.E. Rep. 579 (at p. 582 ).
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