Martien v. Crystal

After the death of Lydia C. Buemler, letters of administration on her estate were granted to David Crystal.

By the inventory returned, the estate consisted of an undivided one-half interest in a lot of ground on Oliver Street, about forty-five feet square, subject to an annual ground rent of forty-five dollars, which was appraised as of the value of one dollar.

On the 19th of November the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore City passed an order authorizing and empowering the said administrator to make sale of this property, “by private sale for the most money which he could obtain for the same,…