Birchett v. Smith

This is an appeal by caveators of a will, from rulings during a trial of issues of fact sent by the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore City to the court below, including rulings on prayers by which the jury were directed to find against the appellants’ contentions.

Henry C. Barranger, the testator, died at the Mercy Hospital, Baltimore, on December 30th, 1924, of heart failure and hypostatic congestion of the lungs, or hypostatic pneumonia, which is described as a filling up of the lungs upon long confinement to bed, of old patients, especially, and as due to old age and to a condition of the heart.…