Brown v. Ryder
New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division
The powers and functions of an administrator pendente lite, which are suspended by the admission of the will to probate and the qualification of the executors, revive on appeal from the decree of probate, and continue until the determination of the appeal. On appeal from decree of Union orphans court admitting to probate a paper-writing purporting to be the will of Edward G. Brown, deceased.
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The powers and functions of an administrator pendente lite, which are suspended by the admission of the will to probate and the qualification of the executors, revive on appeal from the decree of probate, and continue until the determination of the appeal. On appeal from decree of Union orphans court admitting to probate a paper-writing purporting to be the will of Edward G. Brown, deceased. Petition that pending the appeal the executors may be restrained from acting as such, and that the administrator pendente lite appointed by the orphans court may continue to act.
1Opinion of the Court
*357The Ordinary.
The orphans court of Union county, in view of the contest over the admission of the will of Edward G. Brown, deceased, to probate, appointed James R. English administrator pendente lite, on the 28th of April, 1886. It subsequently, on December 7th, 1886, by its decree admitted the will to probate, and the executors thereupon qualified accordingly. On the next day an appeal was taken to this court from that decree. The petitioner asks that the administrator pendente lite may continue to act as *358such. On the other hand it is insisted that his term of office expired when the…
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