Nolan, Exrx. v. Kroll

Funeral expenses are not, strictly speaking, debts of an estate, but the law humanely declares that the administrator or executor shall be obliged to pay them to the extent that the same are reasonable and there are .assets of the estate in his possession for administration. Whatever the law may be in other jurisdictions, in Ohio, real estate of a decedent descends directly to his heirs or devisees and is not assets of the estate to be administered by the executor or administrator except, that when “the personal estate in his hands will not pay all the debts of the deceased, with the…