Doyle v. Rody

The issue in this case is whether Matthew T. Doyle, now deceased, had sufficient mental capacity to open two accounts in the First National Bank of Westminster in December, 1939, in trust for himself and his brother, William F. Doyle, appellant.

After separating from his wife in Delaware in 1937, Doyle, having no children, lived in a boarding house in Baltimore. In 1939, when he was sixty-eight years old, he was paralyzed in his right arm. He was examined at the Mercy Hospital Clinic on December 1, 1939, by Dr. Philip F. Lerner, a specialist in neurology, who found that he had cerebral…