Lee v. Keech

There is one question, only, raised on this appeal: Whether a judgment creditor of an heir may file and prosecute a caveat to a will of the ancestor of that heir, by which real property is devised to other persons. The appellant, Miss Virginia Lee, held a judgment against H. Hobart Keech for $989.15, recovered originally in Baltimore City, in 1914,- and later recorded in Harford County. By statute (Code, art. 26, secs. 19 and 20), the creditor thus became entitled to a lien on any interest of the debtor in real estate in the latter county. The mother of the debtor, Mrs. Hattie B. Shanahan, of…