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the state, the county Orphans Courts.
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JUDGE COLGAN: No.
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MRS. BOTHE: I gather you hold no
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particular brief for the set-up in those courts. Are
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you actually proposing that the Orphans Court of
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Baltimore City, as it now exists, continue as a
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constitutional court but that the county courts be
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eliminated or merged? If so, how would you handle the
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county courts?
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JUDGE FRIEDKAN: My opinion would be not
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to abolish all the Orphans Courts of the state. We have
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a million people in Baltimore City in round figures.
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If you take Prince Georges County, Montgomery County,
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make an Orphans Court there, take Anne Arundel County,
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a couple others, there would be another million people,
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you have an Orphans Court there. You will find Montgomery,
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Prince Georges, Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County
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will have problems like we are talking about now.
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Because of the crowded dockets in the Circuit Courts,
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Baltimore County has just gotten three new judges. Soon
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as they find more room, they will have more judges.
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