Boles's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Linn,

This appeal grows out of two claims presented at the audit of the account of the administratrix of the estate of John P. Boles, deceased, one, by the Commonwealth, for $1,263.14, and the other, by the City of Philadelphia, for $1,565, for maintenance of decedent’s son, John P. Boles, Jr., at the Philadelphia Hospital for Mental Diseases. The son was an adult indigent insane person, maintained in the hospital during the period for which the claims are made. He had no property, until, at his father’s death, he became entitled under the intestate laws to one-sixth of…