Wootten v. Burch
High Court of Chancery of Maryland
[The complainants filed their bill in this court, on the 20th of December, 1848, in which they state, that a certain William G. Jackson, of Prince Georges county, died in the year 1831, leaving a last will and testament, by which he devised his whole estate, real, personal and mixed, to his wife, Barbara Jackson, for life, and after her death to be equally divided among his children; and appointed his wife sole executrix thereof.
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[The complainants filed their bill in this court, on the 20th of December, 1848, in which they state, that a certain William G. Jackson, of Prince Georges county, died in the year 1831, leaving a last will and testament, by which he devised his whole estate, real, personal and mixed, to his wife, Barbara Jackson, for life, and after her death to be equally divided among his children; and appointed his wife sole executrix thereof. That said Barbara renounced, in writing, the execution of said trust, and letters of administration, cum testamento annexo, were granted to the defendant, William N.…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor :
It is a well established rule of chancery pleading, that if a defendant answers, he must answer fully to all the charges of the bill; and it is not sufficient, that the answer contains a general denial of the matters charged, but there must be an answer to the sifting inquiries, upon the general subject, and whenever there are particular and precise charges, they must be answered particularly and precisely, though the general answer may amount to a full denial of the charges.
These principles are stated almost in the identical language of Mr. Justice Story, in his treatise on…
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