McCurdy v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

The question involved in this ease is the construction of the residuary clause of the will of Charles M. Tickner. He died on January 27,1939 and his widow, L. Katherine, died August 16, 1946. By her will she left all her property to her two daughters and appointed them her executrices. The daughters, however, renounced, and the Safe Deposit and Trust Company was appointed administrator, C. T. A. In that capacity it filed the bill of complaint herein, asking the Circuit Court of Baltimore City to construe the will of Charles M. Tickner and declare that all of the residue of his estate went to…