Brengle v. Tucker
Decision Date | 11 January 1911 |
Citation | 80 A. 224,114 Md. 597 |
Parties | BRENGLE v. TUCKER. |
Court | Maryland Court of Appeals |
Appeal from Orphans' Court, Frederick County.
Proceedings by Lennie S. Brengle for the probate of the will of Charles A. Tucker, deceased, and for the revocation of letters of administration granted to Daniel Tucker. From an order denying probate, plaintiff appeals. Affirmed.
Argued before BOYD, C.J., and BRISCOE, PEARCE, SCHMUCKER, BURKE PATTISON, and URNER, JJ.
H Dorsey Etchison, for appellant.
Frank L. Stoner, Leo Weinberg, and Reno S. Harp, for appellee.
Charles A. Tucker, of Frederick county, died in the Hebrew Hospital in Baltimore City on the 26th of July, 1910, possessed of quite a large estate consisting of real and personal property. On the afternoon of July 25, 1910, he wrote and signed a paper in the following words which he immediately delivered to Lennie S. Brengle, the appellant: This paper writing was witnessed and subscribed by F. H. Hermann, M. D. On July 28, 1910, the paper was left for safe-keeping in the office of the register of wills of Frederick county. The orphans' court for that county being of opinion that Charles A. Tucker had died intestate, granted letters of administration upon his estate to Daniel Tucker, the appellee, who qualified and proceeded to administer the estate. On August 8, 1910, the appellant filed a petition in that court asking that this paper writing be admitted to probate as the last will and testament of Charles A. Tucker, deceased, and that letters of administration upon his estate be granted to some suitable person, inasmuch as no executor was named in the alleged will. The petition further stated that the letters granted to the appellee should be revoked. On August 19, 1910, the appellant filed an amended petition asking for the probate of the paper writing as the last will and testament of Charles A. Tucker, and setting out some facts additional to those contained in her first petition.
The circumstances under which the writing was executed and upon which it is contended that it should have been admitted as the last will and testament of the deceased are fully set forth in the original and amended petitions. In the original petition it is alleged that ...
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