Keene v. Corse
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore County. On June 30th, 1894, two of the appellants, next of kin of John H. Keene, Sr., deceased, filed in the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore County a notice of objections to the probate of the will of said Keene, and asked that when the same should be exhibited for probate they might receive notice and have an opportunity to file a caveat in regular form.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore County. On June 30th, 1894, two of the appellants, next of kin of John H. Keene, Sr., deceased, filed in the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore County a notice of objections to the probate of the will of said Keene, and asked that when the same should be exhibited for probate they might receive notice and have an opportunity to file a caveat in regular form. On July 3, 1894, the will was filed and affidavits of some of the witnesses thereto taken, and on the same day an order was passed fixing July nth, 1894, for a hearing of the objections to the probate.…
1Opinion of the CourtMcSherry, J.
After the death of John H. Keene, Sr., and before his executors propounded his will for probate, two of his sons filed in the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore County a written objection to the probate of the will. Later on the will was *22filed, but no notice appears to have been given that upon a specified day it would be probated. On the contrary,' on the same day that it was filed, the proof of two of the attesting witnesses seems to have been taken. Some days later and before any order had been passed by the Orphans’ Court admitting the will to probate, a formal caveat was interposed and the…
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