Walls v. Walker

By the Court, Sanderson, J. r

This is a contest between an administrator and creditors in relation to the settlement of an annual account of the former. Both parties were dissatisfied with the result in the Probate Court, and have appealed. The appeal by the creditors will be first considered.

The case shows that at a former annual accounting, two items contained in the present account—one for cash paid the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at San Francisco, amounting to the sum of thirty-seven dollars and sixteen cents, and the other for cash paid to an attorney at Washington, for…