Earnest v. Ruppenthal

There is no question concerning the fact that funeral expenses constitute a first-class claim against a decedent’s estate. (G. S. 1935, 22-701.) True, our statutes contain no express authorization for the purchase of a marker or tombstone as an item of funeral expense. Nor do they make express provisions for other proper items of funeral expense. By the great weight of *641authority a tombstone or monument,, suited to the conditions of .the estate, to identify 'and protect the remains of a deceased person is now regarded as highly proper and as a legitimate item of funeral expense regardless of…