The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-03-16
Hcitors.
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.
Fike, 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
said administrator opened, reviewed and
restated.
The petition states that on the 29th 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. Fike, 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 3rd day of January
1888, 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
complete inventory OF said debts; that the
said Administrator did not return an ac
count against himself for the sum of $4,000;
and did not return complete statement of
the account due by one Daniel Fike, in that
the amount due by said Fike to said estate
was $1159.94, but the Administrator only
returned as being so due the sum of $l06779,
although the Administrator collected and
received the whole of the Sll5994 that on the
Bird day of January, 1888, the said AdminiStra-
tor settled first account of said personal
estate in this Court. wherein he charged
himself with list of sales of personal prop
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and the list of debts due said estate of $l056.G2
which was not full and complete, 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 +. Fike, which she charges
she did not bid upon and did not buy nor
authorize the Administrator or anyone else
| to bid i'll or buy for her, but which the petit
| ton charges was so returned by the said
| Administrator i'll order that he might perpe-
| trate fraud upon said estate ana the petit
| TONERS; that shortly after said sale of said
| personal effects the said Administrator put
saw mill upon the real estate of the said
| decedent and 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 $4,000, into his own
| pocket, and never 1ntimated to the petition
| er that the said Jane +. Fike or any one of
| them had any interest whatever in said logs
| or money derived as aforesaid; that in said
| account said Administrator took credit for
| an account due himself for $l7.50, and also
| for another account due himself for $685. S,
and for an account due Daniel Fike of $104. As,
| all of which accounts were simulated, pre-
| tended and fraudulent, and brought in by
| said Administrator for the purpose of de
| frauding said estate and your petitioners;
that the petitioner, Jane +. Fike, is the sister
| OF said Administrator, Jonas Frazee, and
the other of said petitioners his nephews and
nieces, and 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 and misrepresentation of said Admin
| iStrator, the petitioners have been kept in
| the dark concerning said estate, and have
| been grossly wronged and defrauded out of
| their property and the estate of said dece-
dent has been misapplied and wasted and
| i'll 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 true and perfect inventory
and list of debts due the estate of said dece-
| dent; that the account and proceedings Of
| said AdminiStratOrmayb be opened, reviewed
| and restated and for general relief and for
| process
That the said Jonas Frazee, Administrator
| as aforesaid, is a nonresident.
| 1t is thereupon, this 18th day of February,
| 1899, ordered by the Orphans Court for Gar
| rett county, that the petitioners by causing
a copy of this order to be inserted in some
| newspaper published in said Garrett county
| once i'll 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 in person or by solicitor
on or before the 18th day of April, 1892 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.
I. II, CUPPETT, J. o.
| ELIAS MERRILL, }. o. c.
| True copy-Test:
| j. w. WHITE, Register. 51-5