TUFTS v. POORE

[No. 99, September Term, 1958.]

219 Md. 1 (1959)

147 A.2d 717

TUFTS ET AL. v. POORE ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 23, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Crooks, with whom were J. Douglas Bradshaw, William A. Linthicum, Jr., and Bradshaw, Shearin, Redding & Thomas on the brief, for the appellants.

Lansdale G. Sasscer, Jr., with whom were Jerrold V. Powers and Sasscer, Clagett & Powers on the brief, for the appellees.

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


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

This is an appeal by the defendants below, Nancy Narcissa Poore Tufts, individually and as executrix of the estate of Pearl Payseur Poore, and William O. Tufts, from a determination by the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, upon a verdict of the jury, that the codicil of Pearl Payseur Poore, dated July 3, 1955, was procured by fraud. The proceeding arose upon a caveat...

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