Court Opinion

ID: 5548681
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-10 21:23:42.042243+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:34:59.371399
License: Public Domain

The Chancellor.
It is not necessary to examine the question whether the property in controversy in this case was or was not rightfully retained by the respondents as a part of the estate belonging to the decedent. For if it belonged to the appellant, his proper remedy was in a different forum. For the surrogate has no jurisdiction, upon a summary application to him, to compel the administrators to deliver over property to the owner thereof, which property has been taken possession of by them as a part of the estate to be administered by them; although their claim to such property is wholly unfounded, or is merely colorable.
Order appealed from affirmed with costs.