IN RE ESTATE OF SNYDER

[No. 127, October Term, 1949.]

195 Md. 81 (1950)

72 A.2d 757

IN RE ESTATE OF SNYDER (Three Appeals in One Record)

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 14, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eben F. Perkins, with whom was Walter H. Buck on the brief, for James Clarke Murphy.

John H. Herold, with whom was John H. Hessey on the brief, for Bessie S. Walker.

Submitted on brief by Hall Hammond, Attorney General, and Clarke Murphy, Jr., Special Assistant Attorney General, for the Rosewood State Training School.

Lester H. Crowther for the appellees, Elizabeth M. Denit, et al.

The cause was argued before MARBURY, C.J., COLLINS, GRASON, HENDERSON and MARKELL, JJ.


MARBURY, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case arises through a bill of complaint instituted by a trustee in the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, asking for a construction of the residuary clause of the will of John Henry Snyder of Charles. This will was executed on July 22, 1911, and the testator died October 15, 1919.

It is important in the decision of the questions raised to note the situation of the testator at the time he made his will....

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