In re Dekum's Estate
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Multnomah: E. B. Shattuck, Judge. This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court affirming an order of the County Court of Multnomah County.
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Appeal from Multnomah: E. B. Shattuck, Judge. This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court affirming an order of the County Court of Multnomah County. The facts are that on October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, Frank Beknm died testate in said county, and, his last will hawing been admitted to probate, Edward Bekum and Adolph Beknm, who were named therein as executors thereof, duly qualified as such, and, on November sixteenth of that year, filed in said county court their petition, from which it appears that an inventory had been taken, and that the appraised value of…
1Per curiam
The property of the estate exempt from execution having been devised and bequeathed by the testator to his children, and the estate being sufficient to satisfy all the debts and liabilities of the deceased, and pay the expenses of the administration, together with such allowance, the right of the county court to make the order cannot be successfully controverted: Hill’s Code. § 1128.* But it is contended that the court erred in striking out the executors’ answer to the widow’s petition. The order requiring the executors to pay the allowance contains no proviso or condition that the amount…
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