M. E. Smith & Co. v. Quinn

On September the 4th, 1913, John Mignolet was appointed administrator of the estate of Minnie Boyer, deceased. Her property consisted of a stock of merchandise estimated to be worth $3,200; her heirs at law were E. O. Boyer, her husband, and Ella Quinn, a daughter by a former marriage. The plaintiffs in error are creditors of the deceased -whose claims were duly allowed as of the fifth class. Upon petition of the daughter (then fifteen years of age) by E. O. Boyer as her next friend, an orphan’s allowance of $2,000, to be paid in cash to be derived from the assets of the estate, was granted…