Berret v. Allen

Bruce Hamer Berret and County Banking and Trust Company, appellants, appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Cecil County denying them the right to mortgage or sell portions of a farm held in trust by the Bank for the benefit of Berret.

By a will executed in 1949 Nora B. Mendenhall, Berret’s grandmother, bequeathed to Bruce Berret and his mother, *545Bessie Mendenhall Allen, as joint tenants with right of survivorship, an 8.32 acre portion of the farm. The rest of the farm property was bequeathed to the legatees named in the residuary clause of the will, which provided:

"Fourth: All the rest,…