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BROWN v. BROOKS

[No. 83, September Term, 1969.]

256 Md. 1 (1969)

259 A.2d 317

BROWN, ET AL. v. BROOKS

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 5, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted by William V. Meyers and Leo William Dunn, Jr. for appellants.

Submitted by Robert E. Ennis and William H. McCullough for appellee.

The cause was submitted on brief to HAMMOND, C.J., and BARNES, FINAN, SINGLEY and SMITH, JJ.

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

We are here concerned with whether an agreement between a husband and a wife extinguished the husband's statutory right of inheritance in the estate of the wife. Judge Powers in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County held that it did not. We shall sustain his decision.

Appellee, Roy Brooks (Brooks), was the husband of Martha S. Brooks. They separated in 1952. Mrs. Brooks and Mary E. Brown, her sister and...

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