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Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland 1846-1854
Volume 200, Volume 3, Page 536   View pdf image (33K)
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536 HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.
and divide the property to be set apart for her use. Now, can
it be supposed that her mother designed that she should ex-
ercise the power thus conferred upon her in her minority ? It
is more than probable that the mother did not anticipate the
contingency of her own death during the minority of her
daughter, but it is, I think, manifest that she did not in any
event intend that this portion of her estate should be separated
from the residue, until her daughter should attain an age com-
petent to exercise the discretion which she conferred upon her.
It is very clear that if the defendant Donnell, and the trustee,
Howard, immediately upon the death of the mother, in April,
1839, selected, persona to ascertain and appraise the property
to be set apart for the complainant, she being then a minor,
and incapable of making a selection, that she might, upon
attaining her majority, have repudiated the Act, and insisted
upon a new ascertainment and appraisement. By the express
terms of the instrument, she was to appoint one of the persons
to perform this duty, and she could not, as I conceive, be
bound, unless, being capable, she made the appointment in the
first instance, or gave her subsequent sanction to it.
There was nothing in the circumstances or prospects of the
complainant Mary, which could have induced her mother to
direct that she should have the immediate use of this property.
She was by the terms of her father's will, entitled to a full
moiety of his estate upon attaining the age of eighteen years,
and in the mean time ample provision was made for her main-
tenance and education. In this state of things, it is not rea-
sonable to suppose that her mother was so peculiarly solicitous
to secure to her the immediate enjoyment of this fund, as to
force upon her a legal capacity to act before the general rule
of law she could possess that capacity.
In view, therefore, of all the circumstances of this case, and
giving due weight to the acts of the parties since the death of
Mrs. Donnell, I am of opinion, that the claim for interest, or
rents and profits in lieu of interest, set up by this bill cannot
be maintained, and therefore decide the first question against
the complainant.

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