Billingslea v. Baldwin
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from fhe Equity Side of the Circuit Court for Harford county. On the 19th day of December 1843, during the life of Walter Billingslea, Sr., the devisee for life, under the will of Walter Billingslea, deceased, of certain real estate mentioned in the will, Pue and wife filed their bill on the Equity Side of Harford County Court, against John T. Baldwin and wife, and others, children of Elisha Bull, deceased, alleging that the complainants and defendants are jointly…
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Appeal from fhe Equity Side of the Circuit Court for Harford county. On the 19th day of December 1843, during the life of Walter Billingslea, Sr., the devisee for life, under the will of Walter Billingslea, deceased, of certain real estate mentioned in the will, Pue and wife filed their bill on the Equity Side of Harford County Court, against John T. Baldwin and wife, and others, children of Elisha Bull, deceased, alleging that the complainants and defendants are jointly entitled to the reversion in the lands now in the possession of Walter Billingslea, Sr., the devisee for life; that the…
1Opinion of the Court
Bowie, C. J.,
after stating the case, (ante p, 87, et seg.,) delivered the following opinion, concurring in part in the opinion of the majority of the court, and in part dissenting therefrom:
The principles which govern Courts of Equity, in the consideration of trustees’ sales, have been so recently and frequently announced, it is scarcely necessary to repeat them. In Bolgiano vs. Cooke, 19 Md. Rep., 392, such sales are declared to be subject to all the principles of equity applicable to judicial sales. Before the ratification of a sale, made by authority of a Court of Equity, all objections…
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