SHIMP v. HUFF

No. 71, September Term, 1988.

315 Md. 624 (1989)

556 A.2d 252

LISA MAE SHIMP v. MARY VIRGINIA HUFF AND WALLACE R. HUFF, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ESTATE OF LESTER SHIMP ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 11, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan Rhodes Nicholson (Ralph H. France, II, on brief), Hagerstown, for appellant.

Omer T. Kaylor, Jr. (Kaylor & Wantz, on brief), Hagerstown, for appellee.

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


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

In his treatise, The Law of Wills, § 34 at 69 (3rd ed. 1947), George W. Thompson warns that "[a]s a general rule, joint wills are not regarded with much favor by the courts, and are ... apt to invite litigation." The joint will of Lester and Clara Shimp has fulfilled Thompson's prediction by causing this Court for a second time to resolve conflicts arising from that will. In Shimp v. Shimp, 287 Md. 372

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