Ragio v. Collins

In these cases applications are made to appoint administrators ad litem in this Court upon the estate of parties who have died since the cases were appealed and who have no administrators.

The Ragio cases are controversies arising at law, and the Scoggins case is one in chancery. No opposition is made, and in the latter case a written consent is filed to the application.

The authority for the appointment of administrators ad litem is conferred by the Act of 1889, Ch. 1ST, brought into Shannon’s compilation as § 3954. This section only authorizes the appointment of such administrators in the…