Kennedy v. McCann

This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court No. 2, of Baltimore City, vacating a lease of an improved lot of ground in that city and declaring the fee-simple title thereto to be affected with a resulting trust in favor of the five children of the late Mrs. Ella J. Speights and directing it to be conveyed to them.

It appears from the record that Mrs. Speights was a widow who had been twice married. By her first husband Daniel Kennedy she had a son John M. and a daughter Annie who married Joseph McCann. By her second husband, John Thomas Speights, she had a son James L. and two…