Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Gittings

This is an appeal from an order of the Orphans’ Court of Howard County passed on the 6th day of March, 1906, and involves a construction of ch. 331 of the Acts of 1898.

On the 19th day of November, 1903, Henry Winter filed a petition in the Orphans’ Court of Howard County, as surviving husband of his wife, Annie M. Winter, deceased, claiming one-third part of the personal estate in the hands of the appellee, her executor, for distribution.

Mr. Winter died on the fourth day of January, 1905, and the appellants, his executors,-by a subsequent petition filed on the 7th day of February, 1906,…