Elkhart County Department of Public Welfare v. Kehr

124 Ind. App. 325 (1953)

112 N.E.2d 451

ELKHART COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE

v.

KEHR, ADMINISTRATOR OF ESTATE OF KEHR, DECEASED.

No. 18,387.

Court of Appeals of Indiana.

Filed May 19, 1953.

Rehearing denied June 16, 1953.

Transfer denied February 24, 1954.

Harry E. Vernon, of Goshen, for appellant.

Philip C. Barker, of Goshen, for appellee.

KENDALL, J.

The sole question presented by this appeal is whether or not the widow's statutory allowance, as provided by § 6-711, Burns' 1951 (Supp.), Acts of 1881 as amended by Acts of 1949, ch. 52, p. 155, § 1, constitutes a prior and preferred claim to that…