Daugherty v. Daugherty

Citations

• 82 Md. 229
• 33 A. 541
• 1896 Md. LEXIS 2

Syllabus

<p>Practice in the Orphans' Court — Submission of Case on Petition and Answer — Jurisdiction to Determine Ownership of Personalty.</p> <p>Where a case is submitted to an Orphans’ Court on petition and answer under oath, no testimony being taken by either party, the allegations of the answer are taken to be true.</p> <p>The question of the validity of transfers of his personal property, made by an intestate in his lifetime, cannot be tried by the Orphans’ Court upon a petition for the grant of letters of administration, since that Court has no jurisdiction to try questions relating to the title of personal property.</p>