Billingslea v. Henry
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Harford County : This is an appeal from an order passed by the Orphans’ Court of Harford County, on the 12th day of April 1862, rejecting certain claims for allowances set up by the appellant in his second account, as executor of Hester Walt-ham.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Harford County : This is an appeal from an order passed by the Orphans’ Court of Harford County, on the 12th day of April 1862, rejecting certain claims for allowances set up by the appellant in his second account, as executor of Hester Walt-ham. The appellant insisted that a previous order of said Court, passed on the 5th of February 1862, was also open for review on the same appeal, but it not appearing from the record that any appeal from said order was taken within thirty days, under the Act of 1818, ch. 204, this Court held that the last of the said…
1Opinion of the CourtBartol, J.
Under the Act of 1818, ch. 204, appeals from the order, decision or judgment of an Orphans’ Court, must be taken within thirty days. This appeal was taken on the 12th day of April 1862, and was of course too late to bring up for review the judgment of the Orphans’ Court rendered on the 5th day of February 1862.
In our opinion that judgment was not invalid for vagueness or uncertainty in its terms.
The appellant had been allowed in an account before passed by him ex-parte, the sum of $800, for board of the testatrix in her life time, and also a certain sum for commissions, being at the rate of…
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