Dodson v. Ashley

Jones, ].,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

I his is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City sustaining exceptions to a sale reported thereto by the appellants as trustees under the will of Richard S. Dodson and refusing ratification of the sale upon the ground of want of power in the trustees (appellants) to make the same. The testator named, by his will admitted to probate in the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore City on the 31st of March, 1897, in the first, second, third and fourth clauses thereof makes certain small pecuniary bequests—each of them to church named. In…