Hanson v. Johnson
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Kent County. This was an action of ejectment, instituted on the 11th of April, 1882, by the appellants against the appellee. The case was tried upon an agreed statement of facts, which are sufficiently set forth in the opinion of the Court. By consent a pro forma, judgment was entered in the Court below in favor of the defendant, with the right of appeal by the plaintiffs.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
This is an action of ejectment, brought by the appellants, as heirs-at-law of Catharine H. Wroth, to recover an undivided half interest in a tract of land, of which she died seized.
The facts are these: Mrs. Wroth died in December, 1854, leaving a paper purporting to be a will, by which she devised the farm in controversy to her husband, Peregrine Wroth, for life, with remainder in fee to her nephew, George A. Hanson.
*27The will was not executed in due form to pass real ■estate, as required by the Act of 1842, chapter 293, then in force, because the consent of her husband, in writing, was not…
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