Chism v. Reese

This appeal is from a decree of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County construing the will of John R. Reese, owner of a farm at Owings Mills, who died May 28, 1899. His wife died in 1893.

The will, executed October 19, 1898, devises to the testator’s unmarried son, John B. Reese, a life estate in his farm on condition that he will support an unmarried daughter, Mary L. Reese, or provide for her in an institution during her lifetime. If he is unwilling or unable to provide for himself and his sister from the farm, the testator’s married sons, Charles A. and Francis D. Reese, who are named as…