Blum v. Fox

In this case Jacob Blum was appointed on November 10th, 1936, the administrator of the personal estate of Augusta A. Kanauff. Blum acted with the apparent assent of the two brothers of the intestate, and in ignorance, as he asserts, of the existence of intestate’s illegitimate son, Harrison E. Fox. He qualified and proceeded with the administration of the estate and filed inventories, but on January 8th, 1937, the son appeared in the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore City and asked that the letters previously granted to Blum be revoked. After a hearing, the Orphans’ Court revoked the letters of…