Clark v. Willson
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore City, and also an Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. These two cases present substantially the same questions. John W. Willson was twice married. The surviving children by the first marriage, with the husbands of three of the daughters respectively, are the appellants in these cases.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore City, and also an Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. These two cases present substantially the same questions. John W. Willson was twice married. The surviving children by the first marriage, with the husbands of three of the daughters respectively, are the appellants in these cases. Willson’s first wile died in April, 1842, and on the 23d April, 1844, he executed a deed to David Stewart, by which, for a nominal consideration, he conveyed to said Stewart valuable fee-simple and leasehold property, in trust for himself during his…
1Opinion of the CourtWeisel, J.
These causes involve the same questions, and the proof introduced into the one, with other admitted facts, was hy agreement, made a part of the other and to the same extent and effect. John W. "Willson, the husband of Mary Willson, hy a second marriage, and the father of the remaining parties, executed in his lifetime and before his marriage with the said Mary, a deed of trust of certain leasehold and fee simple property, for the benefit, after his death, of his children hy his first marriage ; the appellants, in both of these appeals, who were the parties, petitioners and complainants in the…
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