Case ID: va_29/html/0499-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BROCKENBROUGH, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

*Ex Parte Lyons.
    November, 1830.
    (Absent Stuaht, J.)
    Administration d. b. n.— Jurisdiction to Grant  -Wrier:, administration of a decedent's estate lias been ilulv granted by any court of competent jurisdiction, that same court only, upon the death of the administrator, has the jurisdiction to grant administration de bonis non.
    The attorney general, on behalf of Lyons,
    moved the court to commit to the sergeant of the city of Richmond, the estate of John Robinson deceased, remaining unadminis-tered. The former administrations were not granted by this court: administration was first granted to EJdmund Pendleton and Peter Lyons, by the county court of King & Queen; and after the death of the survivor of them, the same court granted administration de bonis non to Dr. James Lyons, who had since died. And the attorney general said, that if administration had never been granted by the county court, there could be no doubt of the jurisdiction of this court. He insisted, that after the death of the person to whom the county court had granted administration, the jurisdiction of this court was reinstated. He likened it to the case of the grant of administration by an inferiour court whose judgment was reversed. After such reversal, there was no subsisting administration ; and it might be granted by any court which originally possessed jurisdiction over the subject.
    
      
      See monographic note on “Executors and Administrators” appended to Rosser v. Depriest. 5 Graft. 6.
    
   BROCKENBROUGH, J.,

said, that after full consideration, the judges were unanimously of opinion, that the general court had no jurisdiction in the case: that, there having been a valid administration formerly granted by the county court of King & Queen, the administration de bonis non must necessarily be granted- by the same court.