Keedy v. Nally
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington County, in Equity. The hill of complaint in this case was filed hy the appellee to have reformed a written agreement entered into-by him and Jacob E. Smith, the appellant’s testator, in April, 1862. The case is# stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtAlvey, C. J.
The principal object of the bill in this case is to procure the reformation of a contract set forth as having been *313made between the plaintiff and Jacob E. Smith, since deceased, and of whose will the defendant is executor. The agreement is rather a remarkable one, and was made as far back as the 26th of April, 1862. Smith, one of the parties to the agreement, died in April, 1883, having made his will in July, 1882, and the bill in this case was filed in January, 1884.
The relation subsisting between the parties to the agreement was that of father-in-law and son-in-law; and the agreement would…
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