Westbrook v. Shotts

The administrator filed a petition against appellant for the payment into the estate of her deceased husband of the sum of $263.14, representing a collection by her of wages owing to decedent at his death.

To this petition appellant filed answer basing her contention of non-liability upon the fact that such aggregate sum was paid to her by the Comptroller General of the United States as having been earned by her husband as a member of the employed force of the Office of Division Engineer, a subdivision of the War Department. To her denial she appended a prayer that the Court set aside to her,…