RITTER v. RITTER

No. 242, Sept. Term, 1996.

689 A.2d 101 (1997)

114 Md. App. 99

Martha L. RITTER v. Lucille New RITTER, Personal Representative of the Estate of Eugene K. Ritter.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Reconsideration Denied in Part, March 20, 1997.

Reconsideration Granted in Part, March 20, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Byron L. Warnken, Baltimore (Martha L. Ritter, Rockville, J. Michael Conroy, Jr. and Conroy, Ballman & Dameron, Chartered of Gaithersburg, on the brief), for Appellant.

Jonathan Keiler (Bulman, Dunie, Burke & Feld, Chartered on the brief), Bethesda, for Appellee.

Argued before MOYLAN, DAVIS, and SONNER, JJ.


SONNER, Judge.

This is a case in which the Montgomery County Circuit Court, sitting as the Orphan's Court, granted summary judgment in a will contest on the grounds of estoppel by judgment. The court, in applying the doctrine of estoppel, found that a previous finding of fact in a circuit court case, which was appealed and upheld by this Court in an unreported decision, was a finding of fact that precluded the appellant from offering evidence of testamentary capacity...

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