The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-03-09
licitors.
Order Of Publication.

Jane F. Fike, John C. Fike, Jasper Fike, An
ME Reybeck and Frank Reybeck her
husband, and Andrew j. Fike, James
Fike andMaggieFike,i infants, by their next
friend Jane f. Fike, VS.. Jonas Frazee, ad-
ministrator Of Andrew J. Fike, deceased.
In the Orphans Court for Garrett county,
Maryland.
The object of this petition is to require
Jonas FraZee, Administrator of Andrew j.
t1ke, deceased, to produce and file in this
court true and perfect inventory and list of
debts due the estate of said deceased and to
have the accounts and proceedings of the
Sald administrator opened, reviewed and
restated.
The petition states that on the 18th day of
April, 1887, Letters of Administration were
granted by said Court to the said Jonas Fra
zee upon the personal estate of the said An
drew j. lIike, late of Garrett county and the
State of Maryland, deceased, and by virtue
thereof the said Administrator gave bond
and possessed himself OF said personal estate:
that the petitioners are the widow and heirs
at law Of the said decedent and that at the
time of granting said letters all of said
children were infants under the age OF TWEEN
ty-one years, and that the petitioners, An
drew j. Fike, James Fike and Maggie Fike are
still infants; that on the Bird day of January,
1883, SAID administrator returned to this
Court what purpOrted to be an inventory of
all the debts due said estate, but the petition
charges that the same was not full and
said Administrator did not return an ac-
count against himself for the sum of $4,000;
and did not return 1t complete statement OF
the account due by one Daniel Fike, in that
the amount due by said Fike to said estate
was $ll5DW, but the Administrator only
returned as being SO due the sum of $l061.79,
although the Administrator collected and
received the whole OF the $1l59.H; that on the
Bird day of January, 1855, the said Adminstra-
tor settled a first account of said personal
estate in this Court wherein he charged
himself with list of sales of personal prop
erty of said decedent amounting to $lUSi "A,
ana the list OF debts due said estate of SI(56.C2
which was not full and pIete, but fraud
upon the said estate, this Honorable Court
and the petitioners; that included i'll said
list OF sales was one item for logs sold YOUR
petitioner, Jane +. Flke, which she charges
she did not bld upon ana did not buy nor
authorize the Administrator or anyone else
to bid in or buy Tor her, but which the peti-
tlOn charges was SO returned by the said
Administrator in order that he might perpe-
trate a fraud upon said estate ana the petit
TONERS; that shortly after said sale Of said
personal effects the said Administrator put
a saw mill upon the real estate Of the said
deccdent ana sawed up said logs into lum-
Der and sold and disposed OF the same on his
own account, and put the proceeds thereof
amounting to more than $iUO.UO, into his own
pocket, ana never minated to the petition
cr that the said Jane +. Eike OF any one of
them had any interest whatever in said logs
or money derived as afOrCsaid: that i'll sand
account said Administrator took credit for
an account due himself tor $lnJ0, and also
for another account due hinIseI lur $sS5. IS
and for an account due Daniel klke of $lOi.45,
all OF which accounts were simulated, pre-
tended and fraudulent, ana brought in by
sad Administrator for the purpose of de
frauding said estate and your petitioners;
That the petitioner, Jane f. Fike, Is the sister
OF said Administrator, Jonas FraZee, and
the other of said petitioners his nephewS and
nieces, ana that he kept from them his
transactions concerning said estate, and
that only within the last few months has the
true state of his proceedings been known to
the petitioners; that by the misconduct.
fraud ana misrepresentation Of said Admin
lStratOr, the petitioners have been Kept in
the dark concerning said estate, and have
been grossly WrOnged and defrauded out of
their property ana the estate OF said dece-
dent has Deen mlSapplied and wasted and
III order That a true account of said estate by
said Administrator may be had and made. it
Will be necessary that the accounts and pro
ceedingS Of said Administrator be reOpened
and restated under the order and direction
of this Court.
The petition then prayS that the said Jonas
FraZee, Administrator of Andrew j. Fike,
deceased, may be required to produce and
file i'll this Court a true and perfect inventory
and list of debts due the estate OF said dece-
dent; that the account and proceedings of
said Administrator may be opened, reviewed
and restated and for general relief and for
process.
That the said Jonas Frazee, Administrator
as aforesaid, is nonresident.
1t is thereupon, this 2Sth day of February,
1899, ordered by the Orphans Court for Gar
rett county, that the petitioners by causing
Il copy of this order to be inserted in some
newspaper published in said Garrett county
once III each OF four successive weeks before
the 4th day OF April, 1899, give notice to the
said absent defendant OF the object and sub
stance of this petition, warning him to ap-
pear in this Court i'll person or by solicitor
on or before the llth day of April 1899, to
show cause, if any he has, why the prayer of
said petition ought not to be granted as
prayed.
DANIEL WILSON, c. J. o. c.
+. Ii. CUPPETT, j. q. G.
ELIAS MERRILL, }. o. C.
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