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LUCAS v. MERC.-SAFE DEP. & TR. CO.

No. 397, September Term, 1975.

29 Md. App. 633 (1976)

350 A.2d 156

EDGAR M. LUCAS ET AL. v. MERCANTILE-SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 5, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Snyder, Jr., and Donald C. Greenman, with whom were Ober, Grimes & Shriver on the brief, for appellants.

Paul E. Burke, Jr., with whom were W. Gibbs McKenney and McKenney, Thomsen & Burke on the brief, for appellees Mabel M. Cromer, Eleanor Hale, Mildred A. Hagberg, Nathaniel Ward and Dorothy Klinefelter. George Barrett Johns, with whom were Martin J. Smith and Smith, Johns & Smith on the brief, for appellee Marjorie Yellott. Submitted on brief by William G. Christoforo and Kenneth Holniker for other appellees.

The cause was argued before MOORE, LOWE and MELVIN, JJ.

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

The appeal before us raises the question of when a controversy exists that is sufficiently justiciable to compel declaratory relief. Patuxent Co. v. Commissioners, 212 Md. 543, 548-549; and see Pr. George's Co. v. Bd. of Trustees, 269 Md. 9, 12. Appellant Edgar M. Lucas is the income beneficiary of two trusts valued well in excess of $2,000,000...

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