Gadekar v. Phillips

Both sides to this declaratory judgment proceeding, in equity, have appealed from a final decree of the Circuit Court for Dorchester County (Edmondson, J.) which determined the conflicting claims of an adult brother and sister with respect to more than 300 acres of farm land and certain improvements. The litigants are the son and daughter of S. Harold Phillips who died in 1969 and whose will devised and bequeathed his residuary estate (after payment of debts and taxes) to his daughter, Ruth Ann Phillips Gadekar, appellant and cross-appellee, “to do with whatsoever she shall deem fit and…