In re the Estate of Porter

Beckett, S.

The administrator’s claim was set out in the account in itemized form as fully as in the claim presented. All other parties in interest, after due notice, defaulted, and no objections were filed to the account. Upon the hearing before the referee appointed to examine said account and to hear and determine said claim under section 2731, Code Civil Procedure, the administrator offered himself as a witness, giving testimony which was, in my judgment, together with additional proof, amply sufficient to establish his claim; the referee, however, disallowed the major portion of the…