Forsythe v. Baker

In January, 1940, C. Walter Baker, one of the executors of the estate of Andrew J. Forsythe, deceased, filed a petition in the Orphans’ Court of Washington County alleging that Earl A. Forsythe, his co-executor, had failed to report certain assets of the estate. After a plenary proceeding, the Orphans’ Court dismissed the petition. On December 17, 1940, an appeal from its decision was dismissed by the Court of Appeals. Baker v. Forsythe, 178 Md. 682, 16 A. 2d 921.

On January 4, 1941, the Orphans’ Court framed a similar issue, whether Forsythe was withholding any assets of the estate, for…