Legal Opinion
Wesley Home, Inc. v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided April 4, 1972No. [No. 239, September Term, 1971.]PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSweeney, J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City (Perrott, J.), filed June 24, 1971, in an action instituted by Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Company, sole surviving trustee under the Will of Virginia Van Rensselaer Jacques, deceased.
The events culminating in the present appeal began on August 11, 1911, when Mrs. Jacques died leaving a Will that had been executed on February 11, 1911. The first four paragraphs of the Will contained certain specific bequests, not of interest here. The fifth paragraph created a trust, and it is the disposition of a portion of the…
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