IN RE CLARKE'S WILL

[No. 175, October Term, 1950.]

198 Md. 266 (1951)

81 A.2d 640

IN RE CLARKE'S WILL CLARKE, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE, ET AL. v. CLARKE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 15, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Maurice Weidemeyer, with whom was John Demyan, Jr., on the brief, for the appellants.

Charles G. Page, with whom was William J. McWilliams on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before MARBURY, C.J., and COLLINS, GRASON and HENDERSON, JJ., and GRAY, JR., J., Chief Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.


HENDERSON, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

J. Beauregard Clarke died on October 14, 1913, leaving a will executed on September 30, 1913. He was survived by his widow, Ella Scott Clarke, and a son, J. Ernest Clarke, who was at that time unmarried. The residue of the estate was left in trust "to pay over to my dear wife Ella Scott Clarke the total net income therefrom during her natural life; and from and after the death...

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