
    Francis J. Swayze, executor, &c., respondent, v. Harriet M. Huntington et al., appellants and respondents.
    [Argued March 4th, 1914.
    Decided May 4th, 1914.]
    On appeal of defendant Charles R. Lane from a decree of the court of chancery advised by Vice-Chancellor Howell, whose opinion is reported in 82 N. J. Eq. 127.
    
    
      Mr. Edward M. Golie, for the complainant-respondent.
    
      Messrs. Pitney, Hardin & Shinner, for Edwin W. Merriam and Henry E. Merriam, individual^, and as executors of the last will and testament of John J. Merriam, deceased, Helen M. LaCoste and Amelia E. Merriam.
    
      Mr. Edward S. Atwater, -Jr,, for Harriet M. Huntington, Ralph H. Buffington, administrator of Maybelle E. Buffington, deceased, Olin L. Merriam, Nellie J. Merriam and Carlisle J. Lane; Mr. Charles E. Littlefield (of the New York bar), of counsel.
    ilfr. William A. Smith, for the guardian ad litem of infant defendants, Carlisle R. Lane, Albert Merriam Lane and Clara May Lane.
    
      Mr. Thomas M. Kays, for the defeudants-respondents Edward M. Dutcher, guardian of Elnora H. Dutcher.
    
      Mr. Thomas P. McKenna, for the defendant-appellant, Charles R. Lane; Mr. John W. Sheehan (of the Massachusetts bar), of counsel.
   Per Curiam.

The decree appealed from will be affirmed, for the reasons stated in the opinion filed in the court below by Yice-Chancellor Howell.

For affirmance — Ti-ie Chief-Justice, Trenci-iard, Bergen, Minturn, Rahsci-i, Bogert, Yreden.burgh, White, Heppenheimer — 9.

For reversal — None.  