Hall v. Hall
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Chancery. The amended and supplemental bill in this cause was filed on the 6th July, 1836, by the appellants, and alleged that in the year 1815, Aquila Hall died, having executed his last will. whereby he devised to his widow, Ann Hall, for life, a valuable real estate and some personal property; after the decease of his wife, remainder to his daughters, Charlotte and Maria Hall, in fee.
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Appeal from the Court of Chancery. The amended and supplemental bill in this cause was filed on the 6th July, 1836, by the appellants, and alleged that in the year 1815, Aquila Hall died, having executed his last will. whereby he devised to his widow, Ann Hall, for life, a valuable real estate and some personal property; after the decease of his wife, remainder to his daughters, Charlotte and Maria Hall, in fee. The will also contained various devises of specific parcels of real property to his children respectively, except Delia, who had intermarried with a certain Philip Moore, and his son,…
1Opinion of the CourtDorsey, J.
The first point relied on by the appellees is not disputed, and on an inspection of the record, is a self-evident proposition. It simply asserts, “that there is no proof of any written agreement for the conveyance of the real estate, mentioned in the said proceedings, by the appellees to Philip Moore, the ancestor of Ann G. Hall, one of' the appellants.”
The second point on which one of the solicitors of the appellees has very confidently relied is, “that the existence of any parol agreement for the conveyance of the said estate, as alleged in the bill of the appellants, being denied by the…
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