Legal Opinion

Gerting v. Wells

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided December 1, 1904PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Harford County (VanBibber, J.)

1Opinion of the CourtMcSherry, C. J.

By the record now before us the last will and testament of Charles Gerting late of Harford County is brought into this Court for interpretation. It bears date on the 16th day of August, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two. The clause which gives rise to the pending controversy is in the following words : “I give, devise and bequeath to my brother, William Gerting, all my estate real, personal and mixed, of which I die seized, in trust for my daughter and only child, Minnie Gerting, until she arrives at the age of twenty-five [25) years, when the said trust shall cease, and the said…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Hammett v. HammettCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1875

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Lumpkin v. LumpkinCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1908
  2. Meriden Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. SquireSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1918
  3. Duering v. BrillCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1915
  4. Howell v. DeadyDistrict Court, D. Oregon · 1939
  5. Clagett v. BowieCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1917

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