Buchanan v. Lloyd
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Talbot County, in Equity. This appeal was taken, from a pro forma order of the Circuit Court, sitting in equity, passed on the 30th of May, 1885, in accordance with an agreement of counsel, sustaining the exceptions filed by the appellee to “ Account A, No. 1,” and rejecting the said account, and overruling the exceptions filed by the appellants to “Account C, No. 3,” and ratifying said account.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Talbot County, in Equity. This appeal was taken, from a pro forma order of the Circuit Court, sitting in equity, passed on the 30th of May, 1885, in accordance with an agreement of counsel, sustaining the exceptions filed by the appellee to “ Account A, No. 1,” and rejecting the said account, and overruling the exceptions filed by the appellants to “Account C, No. 3,” and ratifying said account. To Account A, No. 1, the appellee objected, because he was therein charged with the sum of five thousand dollars under the codicil to the will of Governor Lloyd, and…
1Opinion of the CourtAlvey, C. J.
In this case the only question presented is one of construction, and that is as to the effect of a certain clause in the codicil made to the will of the late Governor Edward Lloyd of this State.
The will was made in 1829, the codicil in 1834, and the testator died in the last mentioned year, leaving seven children, three sons and four daughters, to whom he devised and bequeathed, after making provision for his widow, a large and valuable estate, both real and personal. To the sons he gave their portions absolutely, but to the daughters their portions he gave in trust.
By the,, sixth clause of…
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