PURIFOY v. MERCANTILE-SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST CO.

Civ. A. No. 72-1040-N.

398 F.Supp. 1075 (1974)

Carolyn Bauernschmidt PURIFOY, et al. v. MERCANTILE-SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY, Trustee, et al.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

March 11, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Nicholas Shriver, Jr., William A. Snyder, Jr., and Ober, Grimes & Shriver, Baltimore, Md. (and Ben R. Miller, Baton Rouge, La., of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Robert M. Thomas, Alexander I. Lewis, III, and Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Baltimore, Md., for defendant Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Co., as Trustee.

Daniel H. Honemann, Walter E. Black, Jr., and Clapp, Somerville, Black & Honemann, Baltimore, Md., for defendants Bauernschmidt, Thompson, Bauernschmidt, Murray, Roberts, Bartlett, Requardt and Valiant.

Allan H. Fisher, Jr., of Baltimore, Md., for defendant Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Co., as Trustee.


NORTHROP, Chief Judge.

The plaintiffs have instituted this suit for a declaratory judgment pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1332(a) and 2201. The plaintiff, Carolyn Bauernschmidt Purifoy, is a resident of Texas, and the plaintiff, Grace M. Bauernschmidt, is a resident of Mississippi; the defendants are residents of Maryland, Connecticut and Virginia. The parties all agree that Maryland law governs the construction of the four wills and one deed of trust in question...

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