Mudge v. Mudge

The appeal in this case is from an order of the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore County, authorizing and directing the appellant Arthur P. Mudge, executor of Edmund Tileston Mudge, deceased, to pay to Philander B. Briscoe, counsel for Margaret H. Mudge, the appellee, the sum of one thousand dollars, for his services in connection with the filing of a petition in equity, in the circuit court for said county, asking for the construction of the will of Edmund .Tileston Mudge.

Arthur P. Mudge was the only son and child of the testator, and to him his father devised his entire estate, after providing…