Weems v. Weems
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore city. This is an appeal from an order of the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore city, passed on the 29th of October 1860, sustaining a caveat to the will of Gfustavus Weems, deceased, and refusing to admit said will to probate. The case is stated in the opinion of this Court.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore city. This is an appeal from an order of the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore city, passed on the 29th of October 1860, sustaining a caveat to the will of Gfustavus Weems, deceased, and refusing to admit said will to probate. The case is stated in the opinion of this Court. The following is, in substance, the testimony taken on both sides, as to the physical and mental condition of the testator for some time previous to and at the execution of the will referred to in the opinion of this Court, “reduced to writing in the presence of the attorneys for the…
1Opinion of the CourtCochran, J.
This appeal is from an order of the Orphans’ Court for Baltimore city, refusing to admit to probaira paper purporting to be the last will and testament of Gustavus Weems. The testator, whose estate consisted of personal property, left three brothers, Mason L. Weems, Theodore Weems, George W. Weems, the appellant, a sister, Margaret Jones, and George Weems, the son of a deceased brother, caveators and appellees.
The alleged grounds of objection to the probat of the will, were, that the testator was not possessed of a sound disposing mind at the time of executing the paper pro*344pounded as his…
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