Mertens v. Moore

Burke, J,,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Suit was brought in the Circuit Court for Washington County by certain creditors against the administration bond given by Virginia B. Moore, the administratrix of the personal estate of J. Jesse Moore, deceased. An account was stated and filed by her, as such administratrix, in the Orphans’ Court for that county, by which it appeared that certain sums of money, stated in the declaration, were due and payable to the plaintiffs as creditors of said deceased. This account was approved and passed by the Court. The declaration alleges that it was the…