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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