Chew v. President, Directors & Co.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Chancery. This appeal was taken from a decree of the chancellor, (Johnson,) passed on the 7th of December, 1848, dismissing the bill of the appellant’s testatrix, the complainant below.
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Appeal from the Court of Chancery. This appeal was taken from a decree of the chancellor, (Johnson,) passed on the 7th of December, 1848, dismissing the bill of the appellant’s testatrix, the complainant below. The following are the facts of the case as shown by the record: Jacob Gibson, late of Talbot county,- died in January, 1818, seized of large and valuable real estate, leaving a widow, Rebecca Gibson, the testatrix of the appellant, entitled to dower therein, and leaving also a last will and testament, duly executed on the 29th of November, 1817, to pass real estate, unrevoked at the…
1Opinion of the CourtMagruder, J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the court of chancery, dismissing the bill of the appellant.
He is the executor of Rebecca Gibsoii, the widow of Jacob Gibson, who died in January 1818.
The testator, it appears, died the owner of a large estate, and by his will left to his widow, personal property, some privileges, and also $500 payable to her annually by her two sons, to whom in various parts of his will he devised a large estate. This provision made for the widow, was expressly declared to be in lieu and satisfaction, both of her dower and of her thirds of the personal estate. Of this…
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