O'Connor's Estate

Hughes, P. J.,

The dispute now before us for decision is raised by an exception filed by John J. O’Connor, surviving husband of the decedent, to the adjudication and decree of this court sur audit of the first and final account of Hugh Cairns, administrator, which exception assigns as error the action of this court in awarding the net balance for distribution (left after the payment of administration costs and the decedent’s debts) to her collateral relations as her next of kin, instead of to the exceptant, as her surviving husband, under his claim for a spouse’s allowance. This net balance…