Baltimore Humane Impartial Soc. and Aged Women's and Aged Men's Homes v. Pierce
Decision Date | 09 June 1904 |
Citation | 58 A. 26,99 Md. 352 |
Parties | BALTIMORE HUMANE IMPARTIAL SOC. AND AGED WOMEN'S AND AGED MEN'S HOMES v. PIERCE et al. |
Court | Maryland Court of Appeals |
Appeal from Circuit Court No. 2 of Baltimore City; George M. Sharp, Judge.
Suit by the Baltimore Humane Impartial Society and Aged Women's and Aged Men's Homes against Elisha Pierce and others. From a decree for defendants, plaintiff appeals. Affirmed.
Argued before McSHERRY, C. J., and FOWLER, BRISCOE, BOYD, PEARCE, SCHMUCKER, and JONES, JJ.
Leigh Bonsai, for appellant.
George W. Cameron, for appellees.
The appellant is a body corporate, duly incorporated for a charitable purpose, having for its object the care of aged women and men, who are without the means to provide for themselves a comfortable home. It appears from the record that on the 6th day of April, 1893, the appellee Elisha Pierce, a resident of Baltimore City, and about 70 years of age, was admitted as an inmate of this institution under the following admission contract, which, according to the rules of the institution, had to be signed by the applicant, and also in his behalf by two responsible persons, as sureties:
It also appears that another requisite for admission to the institution was that the applicant and two responsible persons, as sureties, should sign a contract and covenant to the following effect:
The appellee was admitted into the institution under the foregoing contract, notwith standing it appears he failed to sign the last-named contract, and remained there for 10 years.
On the 4th of November, 1903, his son, George W. Pierce, one of the sureties on the contract, died intestate, and Elisha Pierce being entitled to his estate, amounting to about $4,000, the appellant filed the bill of complaint in this case. The prayer of the bill is that "a decree be passed declaring that all property which, under the laws of Maryland, would be payable by the administrator of George W. Pierce to Elisha Pierce is the property of the appellant, as assignee of Elisha Pierce, and as...
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