LEDINGHAM v. BAYLESS

[No. 22, September Term, 1958.]

218 Md. 108 (1958)

145 A.2d 434

LEDINGHAM v. BAYLESS

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for modification of opinion filed November 8, 1958.

Denied November 19, 1958.

Motion for amplification filed November 8, 1958.

Granted and opinion amplified November 19, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathan Patz, for appellants, with whom were E. Thomas W. Stahl and Carl W. Bacharach on the brief for appellants, William Hanna Bayless and others.

Daniel M. Murray, Jr., for appellee.

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


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

Over the attack of the other two children, who are appellants here, the chancellor held valid and effective, as a contract to devise, a written agreement between George E.S. Bayless, Jr., the appellee (usually called "Buddy"), and his parents, that if he would work the farm owned and lived on by the parents, at the death of the survivor he would "be considered the legal owner of one-half undivided interest in the Fairfield...

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