Baker v. Otto

This appeal of C. Walter Baker and Nora M. Baker, his wife, is from a decree of the Circuit Court for Washington County dismissing their bill of complaint praying that Norman Otto and Mrs. John McKee, surviving executors of the estate of Annie S. Miller, deceased, be directed to release a certain mortgage executed by the appellants.

It was alleged that the mortgage in the sum of. $2,450 covered a vacant lot on North Potomac Street in Hagerstown, but that it had been paid on March 17, 1939. Baker, who was Mrs. Miller’s attorney, endeavored to prove that he had paid the entire indebtedness by…