Bowie v. Bowie

This appeal is from an order sustaining a demurrer to a bill of complaint filed on December 29, 1954 praying a declaratory decree for the construction of a deed. Such an order is appealable in equity, despite the failure to pass a final order dismissing the bill. Karger v. Stead, 192 Md. 230, 232; Young v. Cockman, 182 Md. 246, 249.

John Bowie, father of the parties to this suit and a widower, executed a deed to the appellees of two tracts of land located in Anne Arundel County on October 3, 1944. The instrument was duly recorded on November 2, 1944. He died intestate on April 3,1953 leaving…