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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

George Ross and William Campbell, Appellants, v. Samuel Chambers, Respondent.
    Columbia,
    May, 1830.
    The ordinary possesses no jurisdiction to call the sureties to an administration ho^d to an account for the actings and doings of their principal: and where the ordinary made a decree against the sureties, in favor of a creditor of the estate, an a ppeal from his decision was dismissed on this ground; the decree itself being extrajudicial, and inoperative.
    On appeal from the decision of Mr. Justice O’Neall, at York, Spring Term, 1830.-
    
      vide Teague®, Denoy.StM'O. £¡ji, 209.
   Colcock, J.

We concur with the presiding Judge in this case. The ordinary had no jurisdiction, as has been repeatedly rlc.cided. The sureties can know nothing of the transactions of - ® the administrator. If the estate were represented, it might appear, from vouchers to be found among the papers of the ad-m- i.sirator, that the debt was paid.

Johnson, J. and Evans, J. concurred,