Johns v. Hodges
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal front the Court of Common Pleas. The following issues were raised in the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore County, and by said Court were directed to be tried in the Circuit Court for said county, between the appellees as plaintiffs, and the appellant as defendant.
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Appeal front the Court of Common Pleas. The following issues were raised in the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore County, and by said Court were directed to be tried in the Circuit Court for said county, between the appellees as plaintiffs, and the appellant as defendant. The issues were afterward removed from the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, to the Court of Common Pleas, where a trial was had: , 1st. Whether the paper-writing, dated on the first day of May, 1878, and purporting to be the last will and testament of John T. Johns, was signed by said John T. Johns, or by some other person in…
1Opinion of the CourtRitchie, J.
On the issues submitted to the jury in this case they found for the defendant in those relating to the execution of the several alleged wills and codicils of John T. Johns, and in those presenting the question of undue influence ; and found for the plaintiffs as to those presenting the ques*220tion whether, at the time of their execution, the said Johns was of sound and disposing mind, and capable of executing a valid deed or contract.
After the verdict was rendered, the defendant, discovering that two of the jurors were under twenty-five years of age, on the ground of this want of proper age and…
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