SCOTT v. FIRST NAT. BANK, ADM.

[No. 165, September Term, 1960.]

224 Md. 462 (1961)

168 A.2d 349

SCOTT v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BALTIMORE ADMINISTRATOR, ETC., ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 15, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norwood B. Orrick, with whom was Louis L. Bucciarelli on the brief, for the appellant.

Walter C. Mylander, Jr., and Charles C.W. Atwater, with whom were Douglas H. Gordon, Thomas A. Garland and Perry D. Trafford, Jr., on the brief, for the appellee Louis Cohen, guardian ad litem of Virginia Wilmer Scott, a minor.

No brief and no appearance for the appellee First National Bank of Baltimore, Administrator of the estate of Thomas Alexander Scott, deceased.

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


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

This appeal is from a decree of an equity court declaring valid the assignment of a one-half expectancy from the estate of the assignor's father, then living, in favor of the assignor's daughter, Virginia. The assignment was alluded to in Kelly v. Scott, 215 Md. 530, 532, although that case is not in point here, and the effect of that decision was modified by subsequent legislation...

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