Renehan v. McAvoy

The controversy in this case arises over the validity of a certain paper writing, purporting to be a deed, dated the 10th day of March, 1902, and executed by Hugh McAvoy, late of Howard county, Maryland, in his lifetime and delivered to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Howard County for record, after his death, by the Register of Wills of that county, in whose custody it had been left by the grantor, to be kept until his death, and then to be placed upon record.

The deed as set out in the record is as follows:

“This deed made this tenth day of March, 1902, by me, Hugh McAvoy, of Howard…