STEVENS v. BENNETT

[No. 216, September Term, 1963.]

234 Md. 348 (1964)

199 A.2d 221

STEVENS v. BENNETT

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 9, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter B. Dorsey, with whom were Joseph D. Weiner and Paul J. Bailey on the brief, for the appellant.

No brief and no appearance for the appellee.

The cause was argued before HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT, HORNEY and SYBERT, JJ.


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

The appellant, who alleges that in 1939 he made an oral promise to his parents to work, maintain and improve their farm in St. Mary's County and support them from its produce as long as they lived, in return for their oral promise that if he would do this they would will him the farm outright, was aggrieved by the will of his mother (surviving tenant by the entirety) probated in 1957, which left him only a life estate...

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