IN RE ESTATE OF NIXON


71 N.J. Super. 450 (1962)

177 A.2d 292

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF STANHOPE WOOD NIXON, DECEASED.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided January 19, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. A. Dudley Watson argued the cause for defendant-appellant Middlesex General Hospital (Messrs. R.E. & A.D. Watson, attorneys).

Mr. John J. Rafferty argued the cause for defendant-appellant St. Peter's General Hospital (Messrs. Rafferty & Blacher, attorneys).

Mr. John R. Kelly argued the cause for defendant-respondent Michael Nixon, by his guardian ad litem, Philip J. Woodward.

Mr. Terrill M. Brenner argued the cause for defendants-respondents, the unborn issue of Lewis Nixon.

Mr. David D. Furman, Attorney General of New Jersey, filed a statement in lieu of brief (Mr. Elias Abelson, Deputy Attorney General, of counsel).

Before Judges CONFORD, FREUND and LABRECQUE.


The opinion of the court was delivered by CONFORD, S.J.A.D.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Chancery Division passing on a request for instructions by the executor of the last will and testament of Stanhope Wood Nixon, who died in January 1958. The court denied a request for sequestration, submitted by the remaindermen of the decedent's estate, of a life interest in a portion of the estate bequeathed to decedent's son, Lewis Nixon, which was renounced by...

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