Estate of Soothcage v. King

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• holding that, because an “appeal” from the orphans’ court to the circuit court is de novo, technical defects in the pleadings in the orphans’ court are “of no importance on such a trial”
• describing appeal under predecessor statute at Md.Code (1957), Art. 5, section 25
• “This means that the Circuit Court is to consider the evidence adduced before it and that the case goes on and is decided as if no judgment had been rendered.”
• “The appeal to the Circuit Court under Sec. 25 of Art. 5 of the Code (1957) required a trial de novo. Therefore, neither the testimony before the Orphans’ Court nor its findings thereon are now of any controlling effect.”

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