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PURIFOY v. MERC.-SAFE DEP. & TRUST

[Misc. No. 1, September Term, 1974.]

273 Md. 58 (1974)

327 A.2d 483

PURIFOY ET AL. v. MERCANTILE-SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST COMPANY, TRUSTEE ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 7, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Snyder, Jr., and Donald C. Greenman, with whom were Ober, Grimes & Shriver and Ben R. Miller on the brief, for petitioners.

Daniel H. Honemann and Allan H. Fisher, Jr., with whom were Walter E. Black, Jr., Robert Sloan and Clapp, Somerville, Black & Honemann and Fisher & Fisher on the brief, for respondents.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE and O'DONNELL, JJ., and JAMES C. MORTON, JR., Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals, specially assigned.

MURPHY, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Carolyn Bauernschmidt Purifoy (Carolyn) and her mother Grace M. Bauernschmidt (Grace) (the appellants) instituted a declaratory judgment proceeding on October 10, 1972, in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland; they sought a declaration that by reason of the provisions of Maryland Code (1957, 1973 Repl. Vol.) Art. 16, § 78 (c), the terms "child," "children," "descendants" and similar terms...

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