Ridgely v. Gittings
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Chancery. Mrs. Deborah Sterett on the 28th of July 1812, duly made and executed, according to law, her last will and testament, whereby (among other things,) she gave and bequeathed to her -four daughters, to be held for them in trust for their sole and separate use and disposal by her trustees, or the survivor of them, all the money that might be due to her from her son Charles, at her death, for the land that she had agreed to sell him, except…
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Appeal from the Court of Chancery. Mrs. Deborah Sterett on the 28th of July 1812, duly made and executed, according to law, her last will and testament, whereby (among other things,) she gave and bequeathed to her -four daughters, to be held for them in trust for their sole and separate use and disposal by her trustees, or the survivor of them, all the money that might be due to her from her son Charles, at her death, for the land that she had agreed to sell him, except $4000, which she gave to Charles’s son John; and that her son Charles might have a good estate in fee simple, on payment of…
1Opinion of the Court
Buchanan, Ch. J.
delivered the opinion of the court. The appeal in this case is not from the disallowance by the chancellor of the exceptions tal'en to the account stated by the auditor, but from the chancellor’s order directing the appellant to pay to J. Gittings, one of the trustees, the sum of $505 98, the amount of one-half of the commissions allowed to the trustees in the auditor’s report. It appears from the account stated by the auditor, that commissions have been allowed to the trustees on the whole amount of the price of the land sold to the appellant by his mother. But as she…
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