Tatem v. Wright
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court for Dorchester County. Petition and caveat to the will of John H. Wright, deceased, by Frank Wright, Henry M. Wright, Lyda W. Elder and Hattie W. Tatem, praying process against Anne M. Wright, individually and as executrix, and against Eobert Lee Wright and William Wright, infants.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court for Dorchester County. Petition and caveat to the will of John H. Wright, deceased, by Frank Wright, Henry M. Wright, Lyda W. Elder and Hattie W. Tatem, praying process against Anne M. Wright, individually and as executrix, and against Eobert Lee Wright and William Wright, infants. From an order refusing to transmit certain issues to the circuit court for trial, and ordering the transmission of certain other issues, Frank Wrigjit and Lyda W. Elder, caveators, appeal. The issues submitted by the caveatees were as follows: 1. Was the paper writing, bearing date…
1Opinion of the CourtBriscoe, J.
John N. Wright, of Dorchester County, died on the Jfch of J uly, in the year nineteen hundred and twenty, leaving, a last will and testament dated on the 22nd day of November, in the year 1899.
There were four codicils, subsequently executed, by him, to the will. The first was made and dated on the 28th of January, 1908; the second wasi executed and dated the 6th day of June, 1912; the third is dated on the day of August, 1912; and the fourth is dated on the 20th day of December, 1916.
Mr. Wright left surviving' him, at the time of his death, five children and two grandchildren, the latter the…
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