BENADOM v. COLBY

No. 632, September Term, 1989.

81 Md. App. 222 (1989)

567 A.2d 463

CECIL M. BENADOM, TRUSTEE, ET AL. v. HENRY CURTIS COLBY, JR., ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

December 27, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin J. Sykes, Baltimore (William B. Warren and Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, New York City, on the brief), for appellants.

W. Shepherdson Abell (Dorothy W. Lorenz and Furey, Doolan & Abell, on the brief), Chevy Chase, for appellees, Hudson, III, et al.

A. MacDonough Plant (Kristine K. Howanski and Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellees, Minor, Unborn and Unknown Persons. Estelle A. Fishbein and Frederick G. Savage, on the brief, Baltimore, for Johns Hopkins University.

C. Van Leuven Stewart, Marianne Schmitt Hellauer, Cathy A. Chester and Venable, Baetjer and Howard on the brief, Baltimore, for appellee, Hood College, St. John's College and Washington College.

Albert S. Barr, III, on the brief, Baltimore, for appellees, Descendants of Mary King Hodson Brown.

Arthur P. Caltrider, Baltimore, on the brief, for appellees.

Argued before ROSALYN B. BELL, KARWACKI and CATHELL, JJ.


ROSALYN B. BELL, Judge.

This appeal and cross-appeal followed a decision rendered by the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. The case involves the construction of a portion of a trust, known as the Hodson Trust, and the deference due to the Trustees' interpretation of those sections of that Trust. The Trustees1 brought the action against 68 named defendants2 and all minors, known and unknown, born and unborn...

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