Thomas v. Cortland

This appeal is by the caveators, plaintiffs, from the ruling of the Superior Court of Baltimore City in the trial of issues concerning the will of James Cortland.

The record contains but one bill of exceptions, and that refers only to the action of the Court below in rejecting the plaintiffs’ prayer and to the granting of the “Court’s Instruction,” both of which rel ate to the issue of undue influence.

In order to understand the question we are to consider, it will he necessary to refer briefly to some of the evidence in the case. Rut in doing so we are not to he understood as emphasizing that…