Schmeizl v. Schmeizl

Matilda I. Schmeizl, appellee, lived with her husband, Frederick Schmeizl, in Baltimore nineteen years from August, 1911, when they were married, until August, 1930, when she left him and went to California. During the last fifteen years she has been living with a friend named Bert Phillips, first at Los Angeles and afterwards at Santa Rosa, and was known there as Mrs. Phillips. In 1943 Schmeizl died intestate without issue. Joseph Schmeizl, a brother, qualified as administrator of the estate in the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore City. Mrs. Schmeizl came to Baltimore and claimed her distributive…