Estate of Elizabeth Hohenshieldt

Opinion bt

Linn, J.,

These two appeals, one by the Commonwealth, and the other by Monroe County, raise the same question: whether appellants are entitled to reimbursement from a spendthrift trust, of sums expended by them for maintenance of the cestui qui trust in a state hospital for the insane. The trust was created by the will of Elizabeth Hohenshieldt, who died in 1910 leaving a will, dated December 15, 1908, admitted to probate. The trustee filed an account, charging himself with principal of $1187.31, as “the share in said estate devised and bequeathed to said trustee in trust for John…