YIVO v. ZALESKI

No. 966, Sept. Term, 2003.

847 A.2d 510 (2004)

156 Md. App. 527

YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH v. Paul ZALESKI, Personal Representative of the Estate of Jan KARSKI, et al.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

April 19, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. O'Donoghue (Tanya C. Bernstein, Furey, Doolan & Abell, LLP on the brief), Chevy Chase, for appellant.

Jane Moretz Edmisten (Charles H. Fleischer, Oppenheimer, Fleischer, & Quiggle, PC on the brief), Bethesda, for appellee.

Argued before BARBERA, SHARER, and GERARD F., DEVLIN (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.


SHARER, Judge.

In this appeal we are called upon to consider the doctrine of ademption by satisfaction (or advancement), a concept of Maryland jurisprudence taken up only infrequently by our appellate courts. Appellant, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, asks this Court to reverse a ruling by the Orphans' Court for Montgomery County1 that it was not entitled to distribution of a bequest in the will of Jan Karski. Appellees are the...

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