Supreme Court of Maryland, 1918

Lanahan v. Mercantile Trust & Deposit Co.

Lanahan v. Mercantile Trust & Deposit Co.
Supreme Court of Maryland · Decided June 20, 1918 · Briscoe
104 A. 416; 133 Md. 118; 1918 Md. LEXIS 108

Lanahan v. Mercantile Trust & Deposit Co.

Opinion of the Court

Briscoe, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The controlling questions to be determined in this ease are the same as those disposed of and decided by us in No. 22, Krug v. Mercantile Trust and Deposit Co., et al., ante, p. 110, and for the reasons stated in that case the decree in this case will be reversed and the cause will be remanded so as a decree may be passed, declaring that the shares of stock in the Merchants and Miners Transportation Company distributed by the Trust Company to the trust estate herein, constitute income and not corpus or principal and is payable to the life tenant.

Decree reversed and cause remanded, the costs above and below to be paid equally by the life tenant and remaindermen.

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