ROBINSON v. MERCANTILE, TRUSTEE

[No. 196, October Term, 1956.]

214 Md. 30 (1957)

132 A.2d 841

ROBINSON ET AL. v. MERCANTILE-SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY, TRUSTEE, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 19, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Fox and Herbert B. Fineberg, for appellant.

F. Fulton Bramble, with whom was Arthur U. Hooper on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and COLLINS, HAMMOND and PRESCOTT, JJ., and KINTNER, J., Associate Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.


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

This is a suit for the construction of a will, instituted by the trustee thereunder. The testator was Samuel LeRoy Robinson, who executed his will on February 16, 1929, and died in September, 1938. His will was admitted to probate by the Orphans' Court of Baltimore City in November of that year. The controversy concerns the construction of Paragraph EIGHTH of the will (referred to below as "Item 8"). The trial court...

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