Roane v. Hollingshead

On the ninth of December, 1889, Rachael Hollingshead, then being a feme sole, made and executed her last *370will and testament in due form of law, and on the twelfth of August, 1891, she married Louis E. Roane. On May the thirteenth, 1892, she died. Her will was propounded for probate in the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore City, and a caveat was thereupon filed by her surviving husband, wherein he claimed that the marriage had operated to revoke the will previously made. The single question involved, then, is, whether the marriage of a woman revokes a will made by her whilst she was single; and this…