Albert v. Mayor of Baltimore
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from, the court of chancery. This appeal was taken by the appellants from a decree of the chancellor, dismissing their bill, passed on the 16th of July, 1849. The bill was filed on the 29th of May 1847, and its averments, together with those of the several answers, and the facts and proofs in the case will- be found fully stated in the arguments of counsel, and in the opinion of this court, delivered by Le Grand, C. J., and also in the opinion of the chancellor,…
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Appeal from, the court of chancery. This appeal was taken by the appellants from a decree of the chancellor, dismissing their bill, passed on the 16th of July, 1849. The bill was filed on the 29th of May 1847, and its averments, together with those of the several answers, and the facts and proofs in the case will- be found fully stated in the arguments of counsel, and in the opinion of this court, delivered by Le Grand, C. J., and also in the opinion of the chancellor, Johnson, accompanying his decree dismissing the bill, reported in 1st Md. Ch. Decisions, 407.
1Opinion of the Court
Le Grand, G. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
It appears from the proceedings in this case, that Talbot Jones, a citizen of Baltimore, in the year 1834, died seized and possessed of a considerable estate; that he made a will and appointed his two sons, Samuel and Andrew D. Jones, as his executors, and that among the objects of his bounty was his daughter Emily, one of the complainants.
The bill states, that by virtue of a decree of the high court of chancery, passed on the 6th November 1841, in a suit instituted to procure a division of the residuary estate of Tal*166bot Jones among the…
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