In re the Estate of Thomas

Evans, S.

The Oneida County Hospital presented a claim against this estate amounting to fifty dollars and thirty-four cents that was rejected by the executor.

Proof was submitted in this court on the judicial settlement. The facts are not in dispute and the question to be determined is one of law.

The testatrix lived in the town of Westmoreland and was committed as a poor person to the Oneida County Hospital on August 24, 1925, where she received maintenance and treatment until September 21, 1925, a period of twenty-nine days. Miss Thomas was at the time the owner of sixteen acres of land with a…