Downes v. Long
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Caroline County, in Equity. ' This appeal was taken from a decree of the lower Court (Robinson, C. J.,) dismissing the bill of complaint.- The case is stated in the opinion of this Court.
1Opinion of the CourtPage, J.
Denwood Long, being seized of land situated in Caroline county, died in 1887, leaving a last will, by which, among other things, he devised as follows: “To the wife and children of my son, William Thomas Long, now living, and to any other legitimate child or children which may be hereafter born to him, all of that farm on which he now resides, known as the ‘Home Farm/ subject to this condition, namely: I do hereby devise and direct that my son, William Thomas Long, shall have the control, direction and management annually, one year after another, of said farm, and a home thereon during his…
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