Matter of Estate of Hooey

VANDE WALLE, Chief Justice.

Janice Feiner appealed from a county court judgment, certified under Rule 54(b), NDRCivP, confirming the appointment of Richard Mowbray as personal representative of the estate of Daisy Hooey and ordering that the claim of Cavalier County Social Services, in the amount of $116,508.70, be allowed and paid as a priority claim against the estate. We affirm.

Daisy Hooey died March 20, 1991, at the age of 89. Hooey had been a recipient of Aid to the Disabled benefits from October 1961 to December 1973 and of Medical Assistance benefits from May 1974 until her death. In…