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KIRGAN v. PARKS

No. 1227, September Term, 1983.

60 Md. App. 1 (1984)

478 A.2d 713

MARY KIRGAN v. Z. TOWNSEND PARKS, JR., ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari Denied December 4, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sheldon H. Braiterman and Andre R. Weitzman, Baltimore, for appellant.

Alvin I. Frederick and Edward J. Hutchins, Jr., Baltimore, with whom were Eccleston & Seidler, Baltimore, on the brief, for appellees.

Argued before BISHOP, GARRITY and BLOOM, JJ.

BLOOM, Judge.

The principal question raised on this appeal is whether a testamentary beneficiary can maintain a cause of action, either ex contractu or ex delicto, against the testator's attorney for alleged negligence in drafting the will in such manner that the beneficiary did not receive what she believes the testator intended to leave her. Our answer to that question is "a definite maybe."1 To that equivocation we add...

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