SLICER v. GRIFFITH

No. 753, September Term, 1974.

27 Md. App. 502 (1975)

341 A.2d 838

JOHN B. SLICER ET AL. v. H. GLOYD GRIFFITH ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 23, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alger Y. Barbee for appellants.

Joseph B. Simpson, Jr., with whom were Vivian V. Simpson, John Noble, Philip J. Santa Maria and Simpson & Simpson on the brief, for appellees.

The cause was argued before ORTH, C.J., and MASON, J., and ROBERT C. MURPHY, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, specially assigned.


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

On February 3, 1972, Raymond C. Gloyd (Gloyd), a patient at the Potomac Valley Nursing Home, signed an instrument purporting to be his Last Will and Testament leaving his entire estate to a nephew, John B. Slicer. Gloyd was then 93 years of age and in poor physical and mental health, suffering from arteriosclerosis, encephalomalacia (softening of the brain) and senility. The instrument was prepared by Judson Wood, an...

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