Hooper v. Felgner
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Cross appeals from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. Proceedings were instituted in said Court for the purpose of making partition of the residue of the estate of William E. Hooper, deceased, and by the return of the commissioners, ratified April 25, 1893, personal property valued at the sum of $210,382 was allotted to Wm.
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Cross appeals from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. Proceedings were instituted in said Court for the purpose of making partition of the residue of the estate of William E. Hooper, deceased, and by the return of the commissioners, ratified April 25, 1893, personal property valued at the sum of $210,382 was allotted to Wm. J. Hooper and others, trustees under the will of said decedent, in trust for the testator’s daughter, Grace Feigner, for life, as hereinafter set forth. The life-tenant died in September, 1893, leaving two daughters, Marie Theresa and Catharine Hooper Feigner, aged about…
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, C. J.
The questions in these appeals arise upon the construction of the sixth and twelfth clauses of the will of the late William E. Hooper. The testator died in 1885, leaving ten children, four sons and six daughters. By the sixth clause he devises and bequeaths to his four sons a leasehold lot No". 51, and a fee simple lot No. 55, on Charles Street avenue, upon trust to permit his daughter, Grace Feigner, to use and enjoy the same, and the net rents and income thereof to take during her life, without power on her part to anticipate the payment of such rents and income, or to charge or encumber…
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