Thomas v. Marriott

A single question of law is presented in these cases: How are degrees of consanquinity to be computed to determine who are “collateral relations in equal degree” to take the estate of a deceased owner under section 135 of article 93 of the Code? The parties were all collaterally related to a decedent whose property is to be distributed under this statutory provision, and are all descended in three degrees from different common ancestors of the decedent, but the decedent on his side was not descended in equal degrees from all these common ancestors; so that, if comparative degrees of…