Legal Opinion
Watkins v. Barnes
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided January 11, 1954No. [No. 57, October Term, 1953.]PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDelaplaine, J.
Philip C. Watkins, a farmer and bank director in Montgomery County, is appealing here from an order of the Orphans’ Court of Frederick County revoking the probate of the will of Adele H. Kreh, deceased, and the letters of administration cum testamento annexo which the Court had granted to him on her estate.
On Sunday morning, December 7, 1952, Mrs. Kreh and her husband, Arthur T. Kreh, were found dead in their apartment in Frederick by Mrs. Edward M. Lasseter, one of Kreh’s nieces. Mrs. Lasseter called the coroner and then phoned the news of the tragedy to appellant, Mrs. Kreh’s first cousin…
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