In re Estate of Coit
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Hearing on an appeal by an administrator from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding a special term for Orphans’ Court business, revoking his letters of administration on the ground that the court had been without jurisdiction to grant them.
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Hearing on an appeal by an administrator from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding a special term for Orphans’ Court business, revoking his letters of administration on the ground that the court had been without jurisdiction to grant them. The Court in its opinion stated the case as follows: This case has relation to and is one of many incidents that have grown out of the destruction of the celebrated private armed brig Geiteral Armstrong, by the British naval force in the neutral port of Fayal, in 1814. After long and persistent claiming, and the exhaustion of…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Alvey
To determine the question presented, as to whether this order of revocation was proper, it becomes necessary to examine the grounds upon which letters of administration can be properly and lawfully granted in this District, upon the estate of a decedent whose domicile was, at the time of his death, in one of the States of the Union.
By the Maryland act of 1798, Ch. 101, Subch. 5, Sec. 2, in force in this District, it is provided that “in case the party neither has mansion or residence, nor died within the State, letters may be granted in the county wherein lies, or is supposed to lie, a…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Vaughan v. NorthupSupreme Court of the United States · 1841
- Wyman v. HalsteadSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- King ex rel. Wilson v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1892