Blank v. Frey

The purchaser at an administrator’s private sale of a store property appeals from an order of the orphans’ court sustaining exceptions by next of kin of the decedent, and ordering a resale. The question is one of sufficiency of the sale made, in the light of offers of larger prices subsequently received, and in view of a lack of advertising for the sale in newspapers or by other printed matter. No misconduct or failure of duty, except with relation to the advertising, is charged against the administrator.

The decedent, Elizabeth A. Schnapp, of Ellicott City, had owned a leasehold store…