Case Name: CRAIG & GIERS, ADMINISTRATORS D. B. N. C. T. A. OF THOMAS HUMES, VS. THOMAS AND WILLIAM MUSGRAVE, TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES MUSGRAVE
Court: Baltimore City Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1891-10-30
Citations: 1 Balt. C. Rep. 230
Docket Number: 
Parties: CRAIG & GIERS, ADMINISTRATORS D. B. N. C. T. A. OF THOMAS HUMES, VS. THOMAS AND WILLIAM MUSGRAVE, TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES MUSGRAVE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Baltimore city reports, comprising opinions of the various courts of Baltimore city since 1888...
Volume: 1
Pages: 230–230

Head Matter:
CIRCUIT COURT NO. 2 OF BALTIMORE CITY
Filed October 30, 1891.
CRAIG & GIERS, ADMINISTRATORS D. B. N. C. T. A. OF THOMAS HUMES, VS. THOMAS AND WILLIAM MUSGRAVE, TRUSTEES OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES MUSGRAVE.
Samuel Snowden and Jolm (?. Mitchell for plaintiffs.
N. Rufus dill & Son and Wm. A. Hammond for the defendants.

Opinion:
PHELPS, J.
Administrators de bonis non have no right to proceed in a court of equity for the recovery of money belonging to the estate of the intestate and in the hands of the first administrator at the time of his death, without first obtaining an order from the Orphans' Court. Johnson vs. Bank, 11 Md. 412. The absence of any averments that- this essential preliminary has been complied with, is alone fatal to the bill, upon demurrer, without considering other grounds, arid the demurrer must therefore be sustained.