Brewer v. Bowersox
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for Frederick County (McSherry, C. J., and Motter, J.) The following opinion in that Court was delivered by McSherry, C. J. There are several interesting questions presented by the record now before us. That they may be clearly understood a brief statement of the facts out of which they grow must first be made.
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Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for Frederick County (McSherry, C. J., and Motter, J.) The following opinion in that Court was delivered by McSherry, C. J. There are several interesting questions presented by the record now before us. That they may be clearly understood a brief statement of the facts out of which they grow must first be made. The real contest is between the widow of Jacob Bowersox and the administrator cum testamento annexo of his estate; and the subject-matter of the controversy is an interest-bearing deposit in the Frederick Town Savings Institution, to which each…
1Opinion of the Court
We are of opinion that the decree appealed from in this case should be affirmed for the reasons given and upon the authorities cited in the opinion of the Court below.
We adopt its opinion sent up with the record, and direct that it be reported in full. In addition to the authorities cited, we refer to the case of Estate of William A. Parry, 188 Pa. St. 33; 49 L.R.A. 444.
Decree affirmed with costs above and below.
(Decided February 8th, 1901.)
PEARCE, J., dissented and delivered the following opinion in which JONES, J., concurred:
I fully agree with so much of the opinion of the majority of the…
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