Scott v. First Nat. Bank, Adm.

This appeal is from a decree of an equity court declaring valid the assignment of a one-half expectancy from the estate of the assignor’s father, then living, in favor of the assignor’s daughter, Virginia. The assignment was alluded to in Kelly v. Scott, 215 Md. 530, 532, although that case is not in point here, and the effect of that decision was modified by subsequent legislation. See Code (1960 Supp.), Art. 16, sec. 135A (ch. 93, Acts of 1958).

The facts are not in dispute. Wilmer Scott became enamoured of another woman in 1947 and told his wife, Grace, he intended to leave her. The marital…