Murphy v. Coale

John Murphy, of Baltimore City, died in 1880, leaving a last will and testament, by which he directed his executors therein named to; sell all his property, and after the payment of his “debts and funeral and testamentary.expenses,” to divide the .remainder of his estate, provided it did not exceed the sum $120,000, among his six children, viz: Mary Louise, Mary Cecilia, Frank K., Nannie Eulalia, Charles and Alice Margaret Murphy, “share and share alike.”

The third, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth paragraphs of the will are as follows:

“3rd. It is my desire that the estate and moneys…