Berg v. Nelson

In this insolvent estate the claimant, Multnomah County, had filed a claim for expenses of last sickness incurred at the county hospital. The objector Berg had a claim for funeral expenses. ORS 117.110 (1) provides that funeral charges and expenses of last sickness have equal priority of payment from the assets of a decedent’s estate. By the statute payment of the claims should have been equally prorated. The trial court held that statute to be invalid. In settling the final account, therefore, the court allowed first priority for objector Berg’s claim for funeral charges. Multnomah County…