Todd v. Grove

Decided July 1, 1870

Court of Appeals of Maryland · decided 1870-07-01

The bill of complaint in this case was filed on the 6th of August, 1867, by the appellees for the purpose of vacating and annulling certain transfers and gifts of private securities, and United States seven-thirty and five-twenty bonds to the amount of nearly $50,000, made in December, 1866, bv Benjamin Todd, the deceased husband of the appellee, Ruth, to his brother, the appellant.

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From this decree the present appeal was taken · Decided 1870-07-01

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Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 1956 · most notably 7 Cal. App. 14 - Nobles v. Hutton (1907), Brown v. Mercantile Trust & Deposit Co. (1898)

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Grason, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the Court.

¶2We have carefully examined and considered the authorities cited in the argument of this case by the counsel of the respective parties, as well as the evidence contained in the record, and have reached the same conclusion upon the facts, as also upon the law applicable to them, which was reached by the Court below.

¶3The opinion delivered by that Court embodies such a clear and forcible exposition of the law of the case, as well as such a thorough analysis of the evidence, that wc are satisfied that no additional force could be added to it by any opinion we might file in the case. We will, therefore, pass a decree affirming the decree of the Court below, for the reasons set out in the opinion of that Court.

¶4Decree affirmed.