Case ID: nj-eq_49/html/0592-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Maria Slockbower, appellant, v. Alexander Kanouse, respondent.
    A bill for partition will not be sustained where the complainant’s legal title is in dispute; but the bill may be retained to afford the party an opportunity of settling his title at law, or it may be dismissed.
    On appeal from a decree advised by Vice-Chancellor Van Fleet, whose opinion is reported in Kanouse v. Slockbower, 3 Dick. Ch. Rep. 42.
    
    
      
      Mr. Alfred Mills, for the appellant.
    
      Mr. James H. Neighbour, for the respondent.
   Per Curiam.

Decree reversed on the ground that the title was in dispute.

For reversal — The Chief-Justice, Depue, Dixon, Magie, Reed, Van Syckel, Bogert, Brown, Clement, Krueger, Smith — 11.

For affirmance — None.