MATTER OF EASTON, INCOMPETENT

[No. 236, October Term, 1956.]

214 Md. 176 (1957)

133 A.2d 441

MATTER OF EASTON, INCOMPETENT

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 26, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter C. Mylander, Jr., with whom was Clayton C. Carter on the brief, for appellant.

Brief amici curiae for Maryland Title Guarantee Company, Title Guarantee Company and Real Estate Title Company, Inc., filed by Elbridge B. Donaldson, Paul J. Wilkinson, John J. Neubauer, J. Henry Ditto, Norman P. Ramsey and Charles C.W. Atwater.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and COLLINS, HENDERSON, HAMMOND and PRESCOTT, JJ.


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

This is an important case. The titles to many valuable parcels of real estate in Maryland are potentially involved. It is an appeal, taken pursuant to leave of court, from a final sua sponte decree of the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County, in equity, which dismissed a trustee's petition for a decree for a sale of his ward's real estate.

There is no question of fact involved, other than the Chancellor...

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