RIDGLEY, EXEC. v. BEATTY

[No. 136, September Term, 1959.]

222 Md. 76 (1960)

159 A.2d 651

RIDGLEY, EXECUTOR v. BEATTY

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 17, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewin Wethered and James C.L. Anderson, for appellant.

Robert C. Prem, with whom were Thomas J. Grogan, Jr., and Robert Paul Mann on the brief, for appellee.

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


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

When Warren H. Ridgley, executor of the estate of Johanna W. Scheufele, deceased, disputed a promissory note given by the decedent to a son-in-law, Joseph R. Beatty (Beatty or claimant), who had rendered financial assistance to his mother-in-law for more than four years, the claimant filed suit against the estate. The motion for summary judgment filed with the declaration was not pressed and the trial of the case before...

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