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LOATS ASYLUM v. ESSOM

[No. 186, September Term, 1958.]

220 Md. 11 (1959)

150 A.2d 742

THE LOATS FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM OF FREDERICK CITY v. ESSOM ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for rehearing, filed June 5, 1959.

Denied June 25, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Clapp, Jr., for appellant.

D. Engene Walsh and Leroy W. Preston, with whom were Harvey C. Bickel, Edwin F. Nikirk and William M. Storm on the brief, for appellees.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.

HENDERSON, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal is from a decree declaring that the real estate conveyed in 1883, to the Loats Female Orphan Asylum of Frederick City, is now vested in the heirs at law of John Loats, deceased, named in the decree and in the proportions therein set forth. The proceeding for a declaratory decree was instituted to permit the appellant corporation to sell and convey a good and marketable title to the real estate in question...

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