Dugan v. Hollins
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore city. The bill, in this case, was filed by the appellant against the appellees, on the 7th of July 1855. The property in controversy in the case, is a certain house and lot in the city of Baltimore, and it is claimed by the appellant, under the twenty-fifth clause of the will of Cumberland Dugan, executed on the 5th of October 1832, and admitted to probate on the 4th of November 1836, and by the appellees under the twenty-eighth…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore city. The bill, in this case, was filed by the appellant against the appellees, on the 7th of July 1855. The property in controversy in the case, is a certain house and lot in the city of Baltimore, and it is claimed by the appellant, under the twenty-fifth clause of the will of Cumberland Dugan, executed on the 5th of October 1832, and admitted to probate on the 4th of November 1836, and by the appellees under the twenty-eighth clause of the same will. The particular sections of this will having reference to this controversy, are the following: “Y.…
1Opinion of the CourtEccleston, J.
This bill was filed by Cumberland Dugan, on the 7th of July 1855, claiming a conveyance of a house and lot alleged to have been devised to him by his grand-father, Cumberland Dugan, senior, subject to a life-estate therein for Margaret Dugan the widow of the testator; she having died in June 1852. The property claimed is described, in the bill, as a lot of ground of about twenty-five feet front by sixty-five feet deep, situate on the west side of Market Space, in the city of Baltimore, with the house thereon, the same being the third house and lot in Cumberland Row, counting southwardly from…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hollins v. CoonanCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1850
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