In Re Estate of Smead

This is an appeal from an order refusing to settle the final account of Chester R. Smead, as executor of the last will of Lillian Charnock Smead, deceased, and ordering said executor to account to the estate of said decedent for the proceeds of two pieces of real property owned by said decedent and sold by her during her life time. The whole controversy hinges upon the question as to whether said two pieces of real property were acquired by said decedent as a gift and were, therefore, her separate property, or whether she acquired them under such circumstances as to make them the community…