Hart v Middlehurst
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 04 July 1746 |
| Date | 04 July 1746 |
| Court | High Court of Chancery |
English Reports Citation: 26 E.R. 1014
HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY
See Grier v. Grier, 1872, L. R. 5 H. L. 698.
1014 GOODWIN V. GOODWIN 3 ATK. 371. Case 125.-goodwin versus goodwin and Others, July 3, 1746: After a cause is set down, you can only amend by making parties, and cannot introduce new charges, or put a material fact in issue, which was not so in the cause before, but should have preferred a supplemental bill in this respect. One question in the cause arose upon the will of Henry Framingham, dated September 1, 1704. " My estate in Norfolk, after the decease of my wife, I give and bequeath unto " Joan Seaman, wife of Peter Seaman, for her life, and afterwards I give it to her " children, to be equally divided amongst them share and share alike; and for want " of such children I give it all to my right heir on the side of the Framinghams." One child of Joan Seaman was born in the life-time of Framingham the testator, and two others were born after his death. Mr. Solicitor General insisted on the authority of Wild's case, 6 Co. 16 b, and Stanley v. Baker, Moor, 220, that these two children tho' not in rerum natura, yet took an estate for life in remainder, but not in fee, because there is an express limitation to the right heir of the side of the Framinghams. (Note : It was afterwards determined that the children took only estates for their lives as tenants in common, with a remainder to the right heir on the side of the Framinghams. S. C. 1 Ves. 226.) An objection was taken by the counsel of Nelthrop, a defendant in the cause, of irregularity, for that the plaintiffs after publication...
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