Estate of Soothcage v. King

Bruñe, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a controversy over the right to administer the estate of one Bernard Charles Soothcage, who died intestate, a resident of Towson, Baltimore County, Maryland, on April 19, 1960. The appellant, Eisenberg, a Baltimore attorney who had represented the decedent in several matters over a period of some ten years, applied as a creditor of Soothcage for letters of administration and was appointed administrator of the estate by the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore County on April 21, 1960. The appellee, Mrs. King, a resident of Glens Falls, New York,…