Mannix v. Baumgardner

Marjorie Davidge Mannix, individually and as executrix of the last will and testament of Robert Harold Davidge, deceased, appeals to this court from a decree of the Circuit Court for Frederick County, in Equity, holding that a valid and enforceable contract was entered into by the deceased and the appellee whereby the deceased agreed to devise to the appellee the real estate of which he died seized and possessed. The decree appointed trustees to make the conveyance.

Robert Harold Davidge, the deceased, was a travelling typewriter repairman who came to Frederick about 1909 and made the…