O'Meara v. Shreve

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

It appears that Margaret V. Cox, deceased, by her last will and testament, devised to Margaret T. Whelan a certain house and lot situate in the District of Columbia, which, at the time when the will was written, and also at the date of testatrix’s death, was incumbered by a certain mortgage indebtedness; and the question arose in the settlement of the testatrix’s estate whether the mortgage debt was to be paid by her executor from the personal assets of her estate, or was chargeable solely against the mortgaged property in the hands of the devisee, as a devise cum onere.…