CHILDS v. HUTSON

No. 179, September Term, 1987.

313 Md. 243 (1988)

545 A.2d 43

VICTORIA W. CHILDS, ET AL. v. JOSEPHINE D. HUTSON, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 3, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Bruce Hanley and William J.D. Somerville, III, Towson, for appellants.

Robert J. Carson (Michael James Kelly, Kathryn Grill, Graeff, Smith, Somerville & Case, all on brief), Baltimore, for appellees.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and BLACKWELL, JJ.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This will construction case involves a devise of real property to a life tenant and whether, considering the provisions of the will in their entirety, a broad power given to the life tenant to dispose of the entire estate during her lifetime permitted her to make an outright gift of the property to her daughter.

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Clementine Del Gavio executed a will on December 16, 1964. At that time, she had three living children: Frank V....

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