SNYDER VS. SNYDER. 295

HANNAH SNYDER ET AL.

vs. SEPTEMEER TERM, 1848.
JULIA SNYDER ET AL.

[JURISDICTION.]

THE Court of Chancery has no authority over a trustee acting under the de-
cree of a court of concurrent jurisdiction. If such an authority were exer-
cised by the co-ordinate equity tribunals of the state, the utmost confusion and
clashing of power would ensue.

THE CHANCELLOR :

This case being submitted on the part of the complainants,
during the sittings of the term, and being now laid before
the court, without argument, the proceedings have been read
and considered.

The bill, which was filed on the equity side of Baltimore
County Court, professes to be a creditor's bill, and prays for
the sale of the real estate of James Snyder, deceased, for the
payment of his debts.

By an amended bill also filed in the same court, on the 26th
of November, 1847, it appears, and is alleged, that prior to the
filing the original bill, the complainants had discovered, that
the defendants had obtained a decree in said court by consent,
and without the knowledge of the complainants, for the sale
of the property in question, for the purpose of distribution, and,
that the same had been sold by trustees appointed for that pur-
pose; and the bill prays, that the said trustees be prohibited
from paying any portion of the proceeds of the sale to the de-
fendants, and that they be required to bring the same into court)
to abide the decree which may be passed in this cause.

Answers to this bill, original and amended, were filed by
the defendants to the original bill, and also by the trustees
appointed to make the sale, and after some proof had been
taken under a commission, the case was transferred to this
court, under the act of assembly, upon the suggestion of
the complainants. But, the case in which the decree passed,
under which the sale of property was made, has not been brought