Thomas v. Knighton
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore city. This is an appeal from an order of the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore city, revoking the letters of the appellant, as administrator de bourn non, with the will annexed of William Young, deceased, and granting such letters to the appellee.
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Appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore city. This is an appeal from an order of the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore city, revoking the letters of the appellant, as administrator de bourn non, with the will annexed of William Young, deceased, and granting such letters to the appellee. The facts of the case are fully stated in the opinion of this Court. 1st. That there was no error in the order of the Orphans’ Court, of the 9th of August 1864, granting letters de bonis non to the appellant; Maria Young, the widow, being the person entitled, having filed a written renunciation, the Court had…
1Opinion of the CourtBowie, C. J.
Two questions are presented by the appeals in this case: 1st. Whether, in granting letters of administration d. b. n., the Orphans’ Court may, in their discretion, select any competent person, without first summoning those who would be entitled on an original application for administration ? 2nd. Whether, an appeal having been taken from an order revoking the letters de bonis non, and appointing another, the Orphans’ Court, pending that appeal, but before an appeal bond executed, can, on application of the next of kin, modify the order appealed from, by uniting another in the administration?
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