HAYMAN, ADM'R v. MESSICK

[No. 90, September Term, 1968.]

252 Md. 384 (1969)

249 A.2d 695

HAYMAN, ADM'R C.T.A. OF THE ESTATE OF CAROLINE HUFFINGTON SLOCUMB v. MESSICK

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 10, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Edgar Porter, with whom was Lewis C. Merryman on the brief, for appellant.

J. Owen Wise for appellee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and McWILLIAMS, FINAN, SINGLEY and SMITH, JJ.


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

On 29 July 1967, Caroline Huffington Slocumb, 87 years of age, died domiciled in Caroline County, Maryland. Mrs. Slocumb had executed a holographic will on 1 March 1962, which she apparently had prepared without assistance, since it neither appointed an executor nor disposed of her residuary estate. The will did, however, contain a devise of property in Florida to "my cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Gale Messick" and bequests...

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