In Re the Estate of Brooks

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

Thomas Brooks died a resident of Pennsylvania, owning the lands in question which are in Ocean county, and leaving a will naming three executors with full powers of sale. All the executors qualified, but all are now dead, and the local court in Pennsylvania appointed administrators de bonis non with will annexed, whose authority to act appears from an exemplified copy of the will and of their letters duly filed in the surrogate’s office of Ocean county. The difficulty that existed in the ease of In re Devine, 62 N. J. Eq. 703, does not obtain…