Humes ex rel. Mills v. Shillington
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Prince George’s County. The appellees filed their petition on the 15th day of September 1863, in the Orphans’ Court of Prince George’s County, praying the Court to recognize a paper writing, alleged by them to be a testamentary paper and will of a certain George Humes, then deceased, and to admit the same to probate, so far as it affects his personal estate, and the appointment of the appellees executors and guardians of Humes’ infant…
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Prince George’s County. The appellees filed their petition on the 15th day of September 1863, in the Orphans’ Court of Prince George’s County, praying the Court to recognize a paper writing, alleged by them to be a testamentary paper and will of a certain George Humes, then deceased, and to admit the same to probate, so far as it affects his personal estate, and the appointment of the appellees executors and guardians of Humes’ infant children. The paper writing is perfect in all its details, hut the name of George Humes is not signed to it. The attestation…
1Opinion of the Court
Goldsborouuh, J.,
after having stated the case (ante pp. 34-7-349,) delivered the opinion of this Court, as follows:
By section 251, of Article 93 of the Code, provision is made that in case of an appeal from the final decree of an Orphans’ Court, any motion or application to the Court, and the order or decree therein shall be filed as part of the proceedings, and shall be subject to the judgment and revision of the Appellate Court. In view of the authority thus conferred, we shall consider the ruling of the Orphans’ Court in rejecting the petition of the caveators, in which they pray that…
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