Cook v. Carr
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from tbe Orphans Court of Baltimore city. Greorge W. Cook filed his petition in the Orphans Court of Baltimore city, on the 19th of April 1862, praying that letters of administration should be granted to him, on the personal estate of Sarah Ann Wigart, deceased, the grandmother of the petitioner.
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Appeal from tbe Orphans Court of Baltimore city. Greorge W. Cook filed his petition in the Orphans Court of Baltimore city, on the 19th of April 1862, praying that letters of administration should be granted to him, on the personal estate of Sarah Ann Wigart, deceased, the grandmother of the petitioner. To this petition an answer, in the nature of a cross-petition, was filed on the same day by Virginia Carr, a grand-daughter of said deceased, and her husband, Henry Carr, objecting to the granting of letters to the said Cook, because “that by far the larger part of the estate of the said Sarah…
1Opinion of the CourtCochran, J.
This appeal was taken by George W. Cook, from an order of the Orphans Court for Baltimore city, refusing to him, and granting to Henry Carr, letters of administration on the estate of Sarah Ann Wigart, deceased. The appellant and Virginia Carr, the wife of the appellee, stand in equal degree of relationship to the decedent, both being grand-children, and the question as to the right of the appellant to be appointed administrator, is the only one presented.
The determination of this question depends upon the construction to be placed upon the provisions of our testamentary laws, by which the…
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