Grimes v. Grimes

This appeal is from a decree adjudging that Charles H. Grimes, appellant, holds a lot of ground, improved by two houses, at Light Street and Elkins Lane in Baltimore, in trust for his mother, Rose Grimes, appellee.

The lot was purchased in 1924 by appellant’s father, John C. Grimes, now deceased, who had married appellee in 1905, but had left her and was living with a woman named Minnie Otto; and although the deed conveyed the lot to “John C. Grimes and Minnie M. Grimes, his wife,” he had never been divorced. On January 27, 1931, Grimes and his paramour conveyed the lot to Wilbur Otto, the…