Barnum v. Barnum
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore city. This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Baltimore city, (Krebs, J.,) dismissing the bill of complaint filed in that Court by the appellants, infants, by next friend, -against the appellees. The appellants are the children of Augustus Barnum, deceased, who was one of the children of David Barnum, deceased.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore city. This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Baltimore city, (Krebs, J.,) dismissing the bill of complaint filed in that Court by the appellants, infants, by next friend, -against the appellees. The appellants are the children of Augustus Barnum, deceased, who was one of the children of David Barnum, deceased. The object of the hill is -to obtain a construction of the will of said David Barnum, and the complainants claim a decree for a sale of certain fee-simple estates and leasehold and personal property, constituting Barnum’s City…
1Opinion of the CourtWeisel, J.
The controversy in this case arises upon the construction of the will of the late David Barnum, of Baltimore, the founder and proprietor of the City Hotel of that city. It was executed on the 29th of August, 1843, with a codicil made ou the 2nd day of September following. They were admitted to probate on the 13th day of May, 1844.
After a careful examination of these papers, as spread *164out in the record, we can present the following as an analysis of them, by which their provisions will be the more clearly understood, and the intention of the testator more readily ascertained. The will and…
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