Nicholls v. Hodges'ex.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL from the Circuit Court' of Washington’county in the District of-Coliimbia. The defendant obtained letters testamentary on the estate of .Thomas C. Hodges deceased, and passed his accounts in the Orphans’Court of Washington county, in which he was allowed 10 per cent, commission on the inventory of tire deceased’s estate; amounting to §2358 70, and §1200 for services rendered by him to the deceased.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court' of Washington’county in the District of-Coliimbia. The defendant obtained letters testamentary on the estate of .Thomas C. Hodges deceased, and passed his accounts in the Orphans’Court of Washington county, in which he was allowed 10 per cent, commission on the inventory of tire deceased’s estate; amounting to §2358 70, and §1200 for services rendered by him to the deceased. The testamentary law of Maryland, under which this' commission was allowed, is.in these words “His commission, which shall be at the-discretion of the Court, not under five per cent, nor…
1Opinion of the Court
^Mr. Justice Duval
delivered the opinion of the Court.—
The,appellee in this case obtained letters testamentary on the estáte of Thomas C. Hodges, deceased, and passed accounts in the Orphans’ Court for Washington county,' in which he was allowed ten per cent, commission on the inventory of the deceased’s estate amounting to 82,358 70, and 81200 for. service's rendered to the- deceased in his lifetime. The appellants, creditors of the deceased, finding that the estate would probably be insufficient to pay the.-full amount of their claims, filed their petition in the Orphans’ Court objecting t?…
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