Wilson v. Proctor
Supreme Court of Minnesota
John S. Proctor, as administrator of the estate of Harvey Wilson, deceased, presented his account to the probate court of Washington county for allowance. On the hearing, Hiram Wilson and others, heirs of the deceased, objected to the allowance of certain charges for taxes, insurance and repairs on the household goods and homestead of deceased, the widow of deceased having continued and still being in possession of the same. These items were disallowed.
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John S. Proctor, as administrator of the estate of Harvey Wilson, deceased, presented his account to the probate court of Washington county for allowance. On the hearing, Hiram Wilson and others, heirs of the deceased, objected to the allowance of certain charges for taxes, insurance and repairs on the household goods and homestead of deceased, the widow of deceased having continued and still being in possession of the same. These items were disallowed. The administrator and widow appealed to the district court for the same county, Crosby, J., presiding, where the order of the probate court…
1Opinion of the Court
Mitchell, J.*
This cause comes up on appeal from an order of the district court, reversing, in part, an order of the probate court, and allowing the two items in the administrator’s account hereinafter referred to. From this order, allowing these items, the heirs appeal to this court.
The facts were all stipulated upon the trial in the court below, and are as follows: “That the house occupied by Mary Wilson, the widow of the deceased, was the homestead of the said deceased at the time of his death; that the same, and the lots pertaining thereto, were occupied by his said widow continuously,…
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