National Union Bank v. National Mechanics' Bank
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from a pro forma order of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, distributing a. fund among creditors. Under the will of Wm. H. Hoffman, which was admitted to probate in Baltimore County in 1886, the residue of his property, embracing three paper mills, several farms an'd other real estate in said county, was devised to his four children, Lydia A. Smyser, Geo.
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Appeal from a pro forma order of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, distributing a. fund among creditors. Under the will of Wm. H. Hoffman, which was admitted to probate in Baltimore County in 1886, the residue of his property, embracing three paper mills, several farms an'd other real estate in said county, was devised to his four children, Lydia A. Smyser, Geo. W. S. Hoffman, W. E. Hoffman, and John W. Hoffman, and one-twentieth of the testator’s estate was given to his son-in-law, P. Vondersmith. Subsequently Vondersmith and L. A. Smyser conveyed their interest in said property to Geo.…
1Opinion of the CourtBoyd, J.
In October, 1893, George W. S. Hoffman, W. E. Hoffman and John W. Hoffman, partners, trading under the firm name of W. H. Hoffman & Sons, executed a deed of trust, in which their wives joined, to John B. Ramsay and Simon P. Schott, by which they conveyed all their property, “ including all of the joint stock of the copartnership and all of the separate estate of each of the partners in trust, for the payment of partnership and individual creditors, according to their respective rights and interest therein.”
The Circuit Court of Baltimore City assumed jurisdiction of the trust, and after the…
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