Bush v. Bush

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hoch, J.:

The principal question presented by this appeal is whether certain items listed in the inventory of a decedent’s estate as debts due the estate were wiped out by the will of the testator and should therefore be stricken from the list of assets.

W. H. Bush, a resident of Atchison county, executed his will on *557February 11, 1931. After his death on May 15, 1939, the will was duly probated and Mary Ellen Bush and Earl G. Oswald were named as executrix and executor. In the inventory thereafter filed were listed sixteen items as debts due the estate…