Richardson v. Billingslea
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Harford County. The appeal is taken from an order dismissing the petition of the appellants. The ease is stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
In our opinion the defence of lapse of time and laches. taken by the executor in this case, must be sustained upon the authority of Yearley, Ex’r vs. Cockey, Adm’r, 68 Md., 174.
The testator, Richard Green, died in 1861, leaving a will by which he gave all his property to six legatees in equal shares. The appellee was one of two executors named in the will, and became sole executor, the other having relinquished the trust. The estate was largely in debt, and about portions of it there was serious and protracted litigation, involving in one instance an appeal to this Court. He passed four…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Yearley v. CockeyCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1887
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