Madden v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

This case involves the Pimlico Race Track and the law of trusts. A prologue to the litigation now before us could, in the right hands, make a thoroughly enchanting historical novel. The present case, and other litigation which arose as the Hammond Trust approached or arrived at its termination, could furnish the material for a fascinating documentary.

Because it is beyond our competence to achieve either of those results, as well as inappropriate that we attempt to do so, we shall relate, in unembellished form, only so much of the history and of the facts involved as are material and necessary…