43 Md. 291 | Md. | 1875
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The only question in this case is, had the decedent, Mrs. Fowler, a residence at the time of her death, in the City of Baltimore, within the meaning of the testamentary law, so as to give jurisdiction to the Orphans’ Court of that city, to grant letters of administration upon her estate? By the Code, Art. 93, sec. 14, and the Act of 1865, ch. 162, letters must be granted by the Orphans’ Court of the county “ wherein was the mansion house or residence” of the deceased, and if he had no mansion or residence in the State, then “letters shall be granted in the county where the party died”
The testimony according to our reading and understanding of it, establishes substantially the following state of case: The deceased and her husband, Thomas Fowler, resided in the City of Baltimore for a long period before their deaths. The husband for many years kept a-grocery and hardware store on the corner of Eden and Baltimore Streets, and he and his wife lived with a Mrs. Cole his sister and the stepmother of his wife, who appears to have kept house for them, first on Biddle Street and then on Orleans Street. Some time prior to the year 1872, Mrs. Fowler became an invalid, suffering from softening of the brain and paralysis, and was deprived of her mental faculties. In consequence of these infirmities Mrs. Cole found
Order affirmed.