ABBOTT, ADMRX. v. Dept. of Public Welfare

— This is an appeal from a judgment of the Decatur Circuit Court determining the priority of claims in a decedent’s estate; it also involved expenses of decedent’s funeral and Welfare Department claims.

The issues, which were tried to the court without the intervention of a jury, were formed by the administratrix’s petition for allowance of claims and instructions, and the answer and objection of the State Department of Public Welfare. In the interest of time and brevity we set out the petition and the answers and objection, omitting therefrom the formal parts thereof.

“PETITION FOR…