In re the Final Account of the Estate of Pullen

Church, S.

Objection is made to an item of the executors' account which recites that $500 was paid to a Mrs. Delatour for the expense of a funeral robe for the deceased. The question of law arising upon this objection is unique, and the questions-of fact on which it i-s founded are so very singular that they merit a careful recital.

*541It appears that the testatrix, who was a woman of considerable means, had made a will in which the persons who are now •accounting were named as executors. So far as is disclosed, no one other than the draftsman of the will and the deceased was .aware of its…