Scrivener's Adm'r v. Scrivener's Ex'rs
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from a decree of the court of chancery dismissing the appellant’s bill of complaint. The bill, filed on the 28th of March 1799, charges that Mary JJerivener, mother of William Scrivener, the complainant's intestate, obtained letters of administration on the estate of John Scrivener, the father of the said William, and paid the said William sundry specific articles of stock, &e. and two negro women, to wit, Grace and Hagar, which Magar afterwards had issue a daughter…
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Appeal from a decree of the court of chancery dismissing the appellant’s bill of complaint. The bill, filed on the 28th of March 1799, charges that Mary JJerivener, mother of William Scrivener, the complainant's intestate, obtained letters of administration on the estate of John Scrivener, the father of the said William, and paid the said William sundry specific articles of stock, &e. and two negro women, to wit, Grace and Hagar, which Magar afterwards had issue a daughter called Meriah, both now alive. That the said William was entitled to a distributive part of the Del.sonaj estate of bis…
1Opinion of the Court
The Court of Appeals,
[Rumsey, Ch. J. Jones and Dennis, J.J
at this term, (June 1805.) reversed the decree of the court of chancery — And Decreed, that the appellant shall be allowed against the appellees for one fourth of the personal property of Mary Scrivener not included iti the inventory returned by her administrator Francis Scrivener, the said one fourth part amounting, as stated by the auditor in his report made to the court of chancery, to the sum S6Z 15s ,0d cut rent money; that the appellant shall also he allowed ten years hire of the following negroes, from the 4th of April 1772, to…
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