Combs v. Eller

HEDRICK, Judge.

We are first asked to determine whether the court erred in ordering a sale of the stock in order to pay the remaining liabilities of the estate after the general and residuary bequests to testator’s wife had been exhausted.

Testator directed in his will that the property in the residuary and general estates be applied to payment of the estate’s liabilities and specifically directed that the bequest to the Trustee not go to payment of the liabilities of the estate. The liabilities of the estate total $199,602.57 and the property in the residuary and general estates have a value…