Rynier Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

The decedent, Ella Rynier, was the wife of Clayton W. Rynier, whom she married in 1931, she being then sixty-one years of age and he fifty-nine; it was her first but his second marriage. She died on January 13, 1942, intestate, without issue, and survived by her husband, a brother John K. Euch, and the children of a deceased sister. The husband became administrator, and at the audit of his account Euch presented a claim of $6,000 which was allowed by the court and which consumed practically the whole of decedent’s estate, 1 thus depriving the husband of any…