Muncaster v. Muncaster

Cochran,

J., delivered the opinion of this Court:

This case was commenced by a petition of the appellees, filed in the Orphans’ Court for Montgomery county, against the appellant, as executor of Otho Magruder, which states that the appellant’s testator had been administrator on the estate of one Zadoc Magruder, and as such, received and retained in his hands the sum of $600, as shown by an account passed in the Orphans’ Court in 1848; that afterwards, in 1854, he received and retained a further sum of $235.95, with the interest then due thereon; that these sums had never been accounted for, nor…