Wild v. Toms
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Linn District Court. — Hon. Wm. G. Thompson, Judge. > Wild, as administrator of the estate of Mary Johnson, deceased, filed objections to the final account of Toms,' as administrator of the estate of Joseph Johnson, the husband of said Mary Johnson, who died prior to the death of Mary Johnson, and while the latter was under guardianship on account of insanity., The court found that Toms should pay to Wild the sum of $293.24 out of the balance remaining in his…
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Appeal from Linn District Court. — Hon. Wm. G. Thompson, Judge. > Wild, as administrator of the estate of Mary Johnson, deceased, filed objections to the final account of Toms,' as administrator of the estate of Joseph Johnson, the husband of said Mary Johnson, who died prior to the death of Mary Johnson, and while the latter was under guardianship on account of insanity., The court found that Toms should pay to Wild the sum of $293.24 out of the balance remaining in his hands undistributed, and overruled the objections to Toms’ report. From this judgment, Wild appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
Without considering in detail the specific objections made to the report of Toms as administrator, we can satisfactorily dispose of the ease, and decide the questions of law and of fact which have been presented to us, by reviewing the disposition made by Toms, as administrator, of the funds derived by him from the decedent’s estate, and reach a conclusion as to the amount for which Toms should be required to account to the estate of Mary Johnson. It is necessary to work out the accounting- in a somewhat different method from that suggested by counsel on either side, as neither of the methods…
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