Warford v. Colvin
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. Ejectment for various pieces or lots of ground in the city of Baltimore, brought on ihe 24th of April 1856. Plea, non cul. The lessors of the plaintiffs, (the appellants) claimed, title as heirs at law of Rachel Colvin, deceased, and the defendant (the appellee) claimed as devisee under her will, executed on the 6(h of April 1848. Exception.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. Ejectment for various pieces or lots of ground in the city of Baltimore, brought on ihe 24th of April 1856. Plea, non cul. The lessors of the plaintiffs, (the appellants) claimed, title as heirs at law of Rachel Colvin, deceased, and the defendant (the appellee) claimed as devisee under her will, executed on the 6(h of April 1848. Exception. It was admitted that Rachel Colvin died seized of the property in dispute, and die lessors of the plaintiff offered evidence tending to prove they were her heirs at law, and then rested. The defendant then…
1Opinion of the CourtTuck, J.
The object of the present suit is to recover real estate to which the appellants allege themselves to be entitled as heirs at law of Rachel Colvin, in the face of her will devising the same to the appellee, after it had been contested on issues framed under the Act of Assembly and admitted to probate by the orphans court. The proceedings on the caveat, to which the appellants were all parties, as offered in evidence by the defendant, show that the merits of that controversy, embracing the mental capacity of the deceased and the question whether undue influence was exercised over her at the…
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