Williamson v. National Grange Mutual Insurance

In this case of first impression, we are asked to determine whether a nominal bond of a personal representative can be called upon to pay commissions to the personal representative as “debts due by the decedent, the Maryland inheritance tax, and court costs.”

Appellant, Lynn C. Williamson, successor personal representative of the Estate of Agnes Smith Purnell, challenges the *152circuit court’s (1) grant of appellee, National Grange Mutual Insurance Company’s, motion for summary judgment, (2) af-firmance of the orphans’ court’s June 22, 2004 order, and (3) denial and disallowance of appellant’s…