Anderson v. Carter

The appellees, as administratrices of the estate of their deceased mother, in their account and proposed distribution charged the share of the decedent’s surviving husband with funeral expenses and other claims, for which he was considered to be primarily liable but which the appellees had paid. This appeal is from an order of the Orphans’ Court overruling exceptions by the surviving husband to those charges. The principal item to which he made objection was an allowance of $300 for funeral expenses.

By section 5A of article 93 of the Code (1935 Supplement), it is provided:

“Whenever any…