West v. Chappell
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Montgomery County Court. This was an action of debt, brought on the 8th November, 1842, by the appellee against the appellant.
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Appeal from Montgomery County Court. This was an action of debt, brought on the 8th November, 1842, by the appellee against the appellant. The plaintiff declared on a single bill, following its description precisely, viz: $217 98. Six months after date I promise to pay William West, administrator of Richard West, the sum of two hundred and seventeen dollars and ninety-eight cents, current money, with interest from date, for value received, as witness my hand, and seal this 4th Nov’r, 1833. Erasmus West. (Seal.) And alleged that the said writing obligatory in the declaration mentioned, was…
1Opinion of the CourtArcher, C. J.
No right to the single bill upon which this suit is brought, would vest in the administrator de bonis non until the action of the Orphans court was had in pursuance of the act of 1820, ch. 174. That act, in authorizing the Orphans court to pass an order for the delivery over to the administrator de bonis non of the property therein described, impliedly clothed that court with authority to enquire, as preliminary to such order, into the fact, whether the property was administered, or unadministered. It is to be remarked, that the act does not vest the title *230to such property in the…
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