Watson v. Cook

In September, 1935, Joseph B. Cook, an undertaker, filed, in the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore City, under section 353A of the city charter (Code Pub. Loc. Laws 1930, art. 4, sec. 353A), a petition in which he recited that he had two years previously buried the remains of one Mary F. Timanus according to her station in life, and had subsequently called upon her executor, appellant herein, for the payment of $346.30, being the amount thus expended by him in the preparation and burial of her rema'ins; and that the executor refused to pay said sum', which, however, was a reasonable one. To this…