Baker v. Baylies

The chancellor construed the will of John H. Baylies, who died in 1911 a resident of Maryland, as passing an ultimate remainder to those persons living in 1961 (when the last sur viving life tenant died without issue) who would take from the testator, under the law in effect in 1911, “an estate of inheritance in lands in fee vested in me by purchase, in the event of my death intestate, according to the existing law of the State of Maryland.” The appeals are, respectively, by one who would take if the ultimate remainder had been intended to pass to the heirs of the testator living at his…