Hemsley v. Hollingsworth
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Three appeals from Circuit Court No. 2 of Baltimore City (Gorter, J.). The facts are stated in the opinion of the Court. The three appeals were argued before Bovn, C. J., Briscoe, Burke, Thomas, Pattisoet, Ureter and Stockbredge, JJ.
1Opinion of the CourtBoyd, C. J.
Mrs. Mary Hemsley Sterett, widow of Samuel Sterett, died on September 10th, 1911, leaving a last will and testament which was executed on January 16, 1897, by which she left all her estate to her executors, whom she directed by the first clause, to pay her just debts, funeral expenses and costs of the administration and to erect a tombstone over her grave, and by the second clause she directed them to divide the residue of her estate as therein stated between those we will designate as the McKims and the Hemsleys. Walter Hemsley, individually, and he and John Hemsley Johnson, executors of the…
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