Davis v. Calvert
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Montgomery County Court. On the 25th of January, 1831, a Caveat was filed in the Orphans Court of Montgomery county, by the appellant, as the next kin of a certain Thomas Cramphin, then lately deceased, against the admission to prohate, of a certain paper writing, executed on the 30th June, 1824, purporting to be the last will and testament of said Cramphin, and two codicils thereto, dated respectively on the 1st of November, 1824, and the 14th of October, 1825,…
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Appeal from Montgomery County Court. On the 25th of January, 1831, a Caveat was filed in the Orphans Court of Montgomery county, by the appellant, as the next kin of a certain Thomas Cramphin, then lately deceased, against the admission to prohate, of a certain paper writing, executed on the 30th June, 1824, purporting to be the last will and testament of said Cramphin, and two codicils thereto, dated respectively on the 1st of November, 1824, and the 14th of October, 1825, which had been exhibited by the appellee, George Calvert, for probate in said court, and of which the said Calvert was…
1Opinion of the Court
Buchanan, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case comes up on appeal from the Montgomery County Court, on exceptions taken at the trial of issues sent to that court from the Orphans Court of the same county, upon a caveat against the admission to probat of certain instruments of writing, purporting to bo the will of Thomas CrampMn, and the several codicils thereto.
There are three bills of exception, the two first to the rejection by the court of evidence offered on the part of the appellant to impeach those instruments, and the third to a series of instructions given by the court…
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