Steuart v. Carr
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Chancery. The original bill in this case, was filed on the 18th July, 1832, by the appellees against Geo. IT.
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Appeal from the Court of Chancery. The original bill in this case, was filed on the 18th July, 1832, by the appellees against Geo. IT. Steuart, the appellant’s testator and others, alleging the death of one Richard Watkins, in the year 1794, seized of a certain tract of land in Jlnne Jlrundel County, called “Bessington,” containing one hundred and fifty acres, more or less, leaving a last will and testament whereby he devised said land to his three sons, Joseph, Richard and JYicholas, for life, but made no disposition of the reversion or remainder, after the termination oí' said life estates,…
1Opinion of the CourtDorsey, C. J.
To the bill of revivor filed in this case, the appellant hath set up in his answer, three distinct defences. The first is, that he “avers that his said testator informed him within a short time before his death, that he had made a settlement of the above-mentioned case, and had fully and finally closed the same, by agreeing to take to himself a certain proportion of the proceeds of sale.” As this statement of a settlement is not responsive to any of Ihe allegations contained in the bill of revivor, and is utterly irreconcilable to the whole tenor of the proceedings in the Court of Chancery,…
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