Gallagher v. Martin

This is an appeal from an order of the Orphans’ Court of Allegany County passed in a proceeding founded on a petition filed by the appellant, Thomas E. Gallagher, as executor of the last will of Mary Navin, deceased.

The substantial facts alleged in the petition are as follows: Mary Navin after having made her will, by which she gave a legacy of two hundred dollars to the appellee, Bridget Martin, had during her lifetime on May 1st, 1903, through the hands of the petitioner as her agent paid to the said Bridget Martin two hundred dollars in cash in full satisfaction, extinguishment and…