Estate of Mathewson
Estate of Mathewson
Opinion of the Court
This case is an appeal from an order settling a final account and allowing the husband, who was the administrator of the estate, the amount of $512.50 for the reasonable funeral expenses of his wife’s burial. The only heirs of the deceased were the appellant, who. was her mother, and the respondent, who was her husband.
The first point assigned as error is the allowance for funeral expenses. Upon that subject the court found that the husband was the owner of property in his own right of the value of $7,050; that he was a joint tenant with his wife of certain property of the value of eight thousand dollars, encumbered to the amount of six thousand dollars, which property he succeeded to and holds by right of survivorship upon the death *453 of his wife; that the income from the property was about sufficient to pay the interest upon said encumbrance and taxes; that he had borrowed money since the wife’s death for his necessary living expenses and did not have sufficient income to pay the funeral expenses; and that $512.50 was “a reasonable and proper sum to be allowed as funeral expenses, in view of her manner of living, her position in society and the amount of her estate in her lifetime.”
In support of the appeal the case of
Estate of Weringer,
100 Cal. 345, [34 Pac. 825], is cited.
The other objections are too trivial to be worthy of mention.
The order is affirmed.
Lawlor, J., and Olney, J., concurred.
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- In the Matter of the Estate of ADA HAYS MATHEWSON, Deceased. MARGARET WARD, Appellant, v. J. EVERETT MATHEWSON, Respondent
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