Court of Appeals of Maryland January 13, 1920 (Bachtell v. Bachtell)

Thomas, L,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Benjamin E. Bachtell, of Washington County, Maryland, died in February, 1914, seized and possessed of two parcel's of land in said County, consisting of a dwelling house and

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about three acres of land,

near

Smithsburg, where he and his family resided, and an adjoining parcel of mountain land, referred to in the evidence as, a “mountain lot,”