Newlin v. Mercantile Trust Co.

These seven appeals from an order of the Orphans’ Court •of Baltimore City, distributing the residuary estate of William IT. IToyt, late of that eity, deceased, present varying •contentions of the next of kin of the decedent and possible distributees of his estate as to the true meaning of certain •clauses in a codicil to his will. s

The facts forming the background of those contentions are these: William H. Hoyt, who for many years prior to his •death lived with his wife, Kate Hoyt, in the City of Baltimore, left to survive him no kin nearer than nieces, nephews, grandnieces, and…