Legal Opinion
Estate of Jacobs
California Court of Appeal
Decided October 26, 1943No. Civ. 12472PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DOOLING, J. pro tem.
This appeal presents the single question: In the event that a decedent’s estate is insolvent, which is entitled to priority of payment, the expenses of the last illness and family allowance or a claim for retail sales taxes owing by the decedent to the State of California ?
The trial court decided the question by giving priority to the payment of expenses of the last illness and family allowance, and settled an account showing the exhaustion of the estate by such payments leaving the claim of the State for sales taxes unsatisfied. From this order the State has prosecuted…
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