Kaiser v. Ebersberger

Two nephews and a niece of a decedent, her only relatives by consanguinity, and all non-residents of the State, appeal from the dismissal of a petition of one of them for revocation of letters of administration granted to a brother-in-law of the decedent. The brother-in-law, not related otherwise to the decedent, was appointed on the day after the death, as the choice of the decedent, and as a creditor by virtue of his having undertaken to pay the funeral expenses. Lentz v. Pilert, 60 Md. 296, 299. And it is urged that there being no will the next of kin were first entitled to letters if they…