In Re: Johnson's Estate

January 16, 1942. The opinion of the Court was delivered by Mrs. Alice Crutchfield Johnson died intestate and childless in 1936. There was no administration upon her estate at that time for lack of existing assets. Funeral expenses in the amount of $550.00 were paid by her husband, appellant here. Her brother, here respondent as administrator of her estate, purchased a cemetery lot upon which she was buried and her mother paid $125.00 for a monument at the grave, the latter despite appellant's offer to meet this expense, and he does not object to repayment of these disbursements.

The father of…