Earnest v. Ruppenthal

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Wedell, J.:

This is an appeal by a coadministrator from a judgment of the district court holding that a claim for a tombstone purchased by the coadministrator should have been allowed against the estate of the deceased by the probate court.

The trial court made findings of fact which were as follows:

“1. That James J. Earnest died intestate and a bachelor, a resident of Luray, Russell county, Kansas, on the 29th day of June, 1936; that he left surviving him as his sole and only heirs at law, thirty-nine collateral heirs, being nephews and nieces, and…