Owens v. Claytor
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Cross-Appears from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, in Equity. The bill in this case was filed by Mary E. Owens against Richard Claytor and others, to enforce the payment of an annuity given to the complainant by the will of her aunt Mrs. Sophia Gr. Rogers.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
The testatrix being seized of an undivided two-thirds interest in a tract of land containing one hundred and twenty-five acres, devised to her son John, forty acres thereof, including the dwelling-house and outbuildings, and to her. son Frank, she devised the remaining forty-three acres.
In a subsequent clause in the will, she gave to her niece, Mary Elizabeth Owens,, her bed-room furniture, and also an annuity in the following terms
*131“ It is likewise my will that each of my sons, Erank ■and John, shall pay to my said niece Mary, the sum of thirty dollars per annum, in equal instalments every…
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