New Jersey Court of Chancery November 7, 1908 (Clark v. Van Cleef)

Walker, V. C.

The bill is one for partition of lands of which Joanna Clark, late of New Brunswick, died seized. The defendant Ellen S. Van Cleef, who owns an equal undivided one-third of the premises, has answered and sets up that on January 16th, 1879, Mrs. Clark, her mother, the then owner, made a mortgage upon the premises in question to a Mrs. E. L.