Legal Opinion

Rice v. Hoffman ex rel. Hoffman

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided March 15, 1872PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Cross Appeals from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. Philip Horn died in the year 1834, intestate, leaving a large real and personal property, an undivided ninth part of which descended to his daughter Caroline A., who intermarried with Ephraim Hoffman, in July, 1845, and had a child born alive in the following year.

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Cross Appeals from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. Philip Horn died in the year 1834, intestate, leaving a large real and personal property, an undivided ninth part of which descended to his daughter Caroline A., who intermarried with Ephraim Hoffman, in July, 1845, and had a child born alive in the following year. Under a bill for partition, filed in the year 1869, a part of the real and leasehold estate of the deceased was sold by trustees; and attachments were laid in their hands by the creditors of Ephraim, upon judgments recovered against him in 1869 and 1870. The auditor stated an…

1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.

Philip Horn died in 1834, seized and possessed of a large real and personal estate. Caroline A. Hoffman, who intermarried with Ephraim Hoffman in 1845, is a daughter of the said Philip, and entitled to an undivided one-ninth part of said property.

Under a bill filed for partition in 1869, part of the real and leasehold estate of the said Philip was sold, and the question is, whether the distributive share of Caroline A. Hoffman, arising from the sale thereof, is liable to execution for the debts of her husband, contracted in 1869.

I. No question can arise, we think, in regard to the proceeds of…

2Cited by6 opinions

  1. Silberman v. Jacobs & SilbermanCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1970
  2. Harris v. WhiteleyCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1904
  3. Oswald v. HooverCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1875
  4. Hoffman ex rel. Hoffman v. RiceCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1873
  5. National Metropolitan Bank of Washington v. HitzDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1881

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