Elam v. International Trust Co.

The question for decision has to do with the status of a minor’s allowance against her father’s estate. The district court, as had the county court originally, adjudged that the allowance to the minor ranked as a claim of the fourth class.

It appears that the minor’s father died December 22, 1933, and that his will was admitted to probate April 9, 1934, in the Denver county court; that December 18,1935, the minor, plaintiff in error, filed a petition for an allowance under the provisions of chapter 109, Session Laws, 1935; that September 23, 1936, the petition was granted and an allowance in…