ZITO v. TICKNER

The executors of the estate of a decedent appeal from an order of the Orphans’ Court of Baltimore City directing them to pay an undertaking firm’s claim for funeral expenses of the decedent in the amount of $737.00.

The question at issue is whether or not the undertakers may be required to give an itemization of a lump sum charge of $477.00, which covers the cost of the casket and some half-dozen other things or services furnished by them. The other charges which make up the total of $737.00 include some things furnished by the undertakers and some things furnished by others, and are…