Richardson v. Daggett
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by tbe petitioners, collectors of the estate of a decedent, from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, sitting as a court of probate, dismissing, for want of jurisdiction, a petition for the discovery of alleged concealed assets of such estate.
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Hearing on an appeal by tbe petitioners, collectors of the estate of a decedent, from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, sitting as a court of probate, dismissing, for want of jurisdiction, a petition for the discovery of alleged concealed assets of such estate. The Court in the opinion stated the case as follows: On March 25, 1904, two creditors of Albert Daggett, deceased, filed separate petitions in the probate court, alleging his death intestate on December 19, 1903, in the State of Maine, and that he was a resident of the District of Columbia and left personal…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard
The single question raised by the dismissal of the petition is, whether the probate court had jurisdiction to determine the question of title and control the possession of the property. The orphans’ court of the District of Columbia was, from the beginning, a court of special jurisd’^tion, conferred by the statutes of Maryland that were in force at the time of the cession, and could exercise no powers other than those expressly granted, or which could be reasonably and necessarily implied from some express provision. Cook v. Speare, 13 App. D. C. 446, 451, 452. In that case it was…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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