Brewer v. Brewer

The ultimate issue before us is whether the Orphans’ Court for Baltimore County erred in denying a petition to reopen an *185Estate that had been closed for more than 20 months. In the Orphans’ Court and in the Court of Special Appeals, a number of subsidiary questions were raised bearing on that issue, including whether the petition was timely. The only substantive question raised in the petition for certiorari was whether an agreement among all of the beneficiaries to distribute certain assets of the Estate in a manner different from that provided for in the testatrix’s Will required submission…