Succession of Jones

• HIGGINS, Justice.

This is an action by an emancipated minor against the administrator of the succession of her father to recover from him, in his capacity as such, and individually, the sum of $2,525.25, plus 20 per cent, penalty and interest for having illegally paid her three-fourths share of her inheritance in the proceeds of her father’s war risk insurance to other heirs, while her appeal from the decision of the lower court overruling her opposition to the administrator’s final account was pending in the Supreme Court.

The defendant answered, admitting that he had failed to recognize the…