Dombrovski v. Mayor of Baltimore

The main question presented by this appeal is whether the first- cousin of a person, dying in this State possessed of personal property and leaving no nearer relatives, and where the estate of the decedent has been distributed to the State upon The theory that the decedent left no relatives within the fifth degree of consanguinity, can recover from such distributee, or the department thereof actually receiving the money, the proportion thereof to which such claimant would he entitled under the statute of distribution.

dlie facts from which that question arises are these: Alary Blokes, a…