Gambrill v. Forest Grove Lodge, No. 4
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. This was an action of ejectment brought hy the appellee to recover the real estate in controversy. The appellant pleaded not guilty, and the appellee joined issue. The case was tried before the Court on an agreed statement of facts.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. This was an action of ejectment brought hy the appellee to recover the real estate in controversy. The appellant pleaded not guilty, and the appellee joined issue. The case was tried before the Court on an agreed statement of facts. Erom this statement it appears that during the life-time of Peter Griffith, certain equity proceedings were had, to which Jane Griffith was not a party, and by which she was not hound, in which Peter Griffith became possessed in severalty of that part of the land devised hy the testator, Peter Gambrill,…
1Opinion of the CourtBryan, J.
Peter Gambrill by his last will and testament, executed in November, 1862, made the following devise: “I give and bequeath unto my grandchildren, Peter and Pinkney, all my real estate, reserving half an acre for a burying ground. * * * * In case either the said Peter and Pinkney die without heirs, his portion of the estate shall go to his mother, or if both die, the whole shall go to the mother.” The will was duly admitted to probate, January, 1865, after the death of the testator. It was shown by an agreed statement of facts, that Peter, one of the grandsons mentioned in the will, died in…
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