Plummer v. Waskey

Nelle W. Murray died on August 13, 1975, at the Baltimore County General Hospital, where she had been taken two weeks earlier. She was 82 years of age. She had no children. The closest remaining relatives were second cousins.

On August 22, the appellant, Risque W. Plummer, who had been Mrs. Murray’s lawyer for some 25 years, submitted for judicial probate a conformed carbon copy of a Last Will and Testament executed by the decedent on August 17,1967, and a Codicil thereto dated July 22, 1973. In his petition for probate, Mr. Plummer stated that he had made a diligent search for the original of…