Hughes v. McDaniel

This suit in equity was entered in the Circuit Court for Cecil County by Alice L. McDaniel to annul an agreement which she and her husband, Marshall D. McDaniel, now deceased, entered into with James W. Hughes, attorney, of Elkton, for the disposition of a trust estate.

The record shows that McDaniel, who had been a resident of New York City for many years, owned a vested remainder estate in a tract of 1,368 acres of land near North East, known as Shady Beach, under a deed of trust made by his grandfather, Delaplaine McDaniel. In 1920 McDaniel, who was an excessive drinker of alcoholic…