Lee v. O'Donnell
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Two appeals from the Circuit Court No. 2, of Baltimore City (Stockbridge, J.), where the following decree was made. Above cause standing ready for hearing upon the bill and the answers thereto, and .the exhibits, and having been argued by the solicitors for the respective parties, plaintiffs and defendants, the said bill, answers, exhibits and all of the other proceedings were by the Court read and considered, and it appearing to the Court that Oliver E. O’Donnell, the…
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Two appeals from the Circuit Court No. 2, of Baltimore City (Stockbridge, J.), where the following decree was made. Above cause standing ready for hearing upon the bill and the answers thereto, and .the exhibits, and having been argued by the solicitors for the respective parties, plaintiffs and defendants, the said bill, answers, exhibits and all of the other proceedings were by the Court read and considered, and it appearing to the Court that Oliver E. O’Donnell, the equitable life tenant under the tenth item of the sixteenth article of the will of Columbus O’Donnell, deceased, died on…
1Opinion of the CourtBriscoe, J.
The object of this suit is to obtain a construction of certain clauses of the last will and testament of Columbus O’Donnell, late of Baltimore City, deceased. There are two appeals in the record, but as they are taken from the same decree, we shall consider them as one appeal.
Mr. O’Donnell, the testator, died on the 25th of May, 1873, and his will dated August 27th, 1866, and subsequent codicils thereto, were duly admitted to probate in the Orphan’s Court of Baltimore City. The will contains twenty-three distinct articles and three codicils, covering sixteen pages of the record, and disposes…
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- Cox v. HandyCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1893
- Goldsborough ex rel. Goldsborough v. MartinCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1875
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