Hess v. Chalmers

Helen Lee Dietrich died in November, 1971, holding record title to certain leasehold real estate in Anne Arundel County, and other real estate elsewhere in Maryland. Surviving her were two daughters, Patricia Dietrich Hess and Helen Neal Dietrich Curley, as well as two sisters, Rita V. Chalmers and Antoinette L. Frazier, and a brother, William E. Smith. Her divorced former husband, George A. Dietrich, also survived her.

In her will, which named Francis X. McDonough as executor, Mrs. Dietrich left her residuary estate to her daughters, her sisters, and her brother.

Asserting that under a 1963…