President of Georgetown College v. Browne
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore City. On the 15th of August, 1844, Mary E. Browne made her • will, devising and bequeathing all her property to the Rev. Thomas Lilly, and appointing him h@r sole executor.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore City. On the 15th of August, 1844, Mary E. Browne made her • will, devising and bequeathing all her property to the Rev. Thomas Lilly, and appointing him h@r sole executor. On the 4th day of May, 1850, the Rev. Thomas Lilly, who was a Catholic Priest of the Society of Jesuits, devised all his property- of every description, then owned or that might be owned by him at the time of his death, or in which he then had or might thereafter have any interest, to the appellants, the President and Directors of Georgetown College, a corporation in the District…
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
Mary E. Browne executed her will in 1844, by which she devised and bequeathed all her property, real and personal of every hind and description, to Thomas Lilly, whom she also appointed her sole executor. Lilly died before the testatrix, leaving a will by which he gave all his property in possession, and all to which he might be in any wise entitled, to the president and directors of Georgetown College, a corporation in the District of Columbia, incorporated by Act of Congress in 1844. Subsequently, in 1867, Miss Browne died, leaving her will unchanged. The real question in dispute is, who is…
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