Byer's Estate

Stearns, J.,

Respondent challenges the jurisdiction of the Orphans’ Court in the present controversy. Decedent in her lifetime was possessed of personal property consisting of shares of stock in various corporations, promissory notes and of cash deposits in a bank. All stood, and still stand, in her name. After the death, possession of this property was discovered in the respondent, a stranger to the blood, who was the proprietor of the rooming-house where decedent roomed. Petitioner, the administratrix, secured a citation on the respondent to show cause why the property should! not be…