Connelly v. Beall

This is an appeal from an order of the Orphans’ Court of Montgomery County directing certain issues to be transmitted to the Circuit Court for that county to be tried. These issues were formed on a caveat to the will, or paper writing purporting to be the will, of Catharine A. Whalan, deceased. The appellee here is the caveator, claiming as sole heir and next-of-kin of the deceased, and the appellants, the caveatees, claim under the will.

There were six issues formed and ordered to be transmitted for trial. They are:—

1st. Whether the paper writing, dated the 28th of September, 1844, purporting…