Gutman v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

Morton Gutman died July 5, 1948. Surviving him were two children: Harriett F. Gutman Hutzler, a child by his first marriage, and Leonard B. Gutman, a child of his second wife by a former marriage, whom he adopted by decree of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City dated May 18, 1928. Harriett claims, as the only child by blood, the one-fifth share of the income of the corpus of the trust estate now held by trustees under the will of Frederica Gutman, deceased. Leonard contends that as an adopted child of Morton Gutman he is entitled to share equally with Harriett in the income and the corpus.

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