Case Name: CHARLES I. WOOSTER, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. CHRISTOPHER FITZGERALD ET AL., DEFENDANTS IN ERROR
Court: New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1898-06-20
Citations: 61 N.J.L. 687
Docket Number: 
Parties: CHARLES I. WOOSTER, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. CHRISTOPHER FITZGERALD ET AL., DEFENDANTS IN ERROR.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 61
Pages: 687–691

Head Matter:
CHARLES I. WOOSTER, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. CHRISTOPHER FITZGERALD ET AL., DEFENDANTS IN ERROR.
\_Argvj¡d March 9th, 1898 ;
decided June 20th, 1898.]
On error to the Supreme Court. Eor the opinion of the Supreme Court, see antep. 368.
For the plaintiff in error, John J. Crandall.
For the defendants in error, James Buchanan.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The judgment of the Supreme Court is affirmed, for the reasons given by that court, except that we are unwilling to concur in all that was said as to the conclusiveness of our former decision.
The decree that was affirmed under that decision extended only to personalty, and could not work an estoppel of record in an action of ejectment. The Court of Chancery had no jurisdiction to try the title to lands, and the heirs-at-law of Benjamin D. Cooper were not parties to the suit in that capacity, but only as legatees.
' As a precedent the decision ruled only the point expressly decided.