Koerner v. Division of National Missions of the Board of Missions of the Methodist Church

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fatzer, J.:

This was an appeal from the probate court to the district court from an order allowing administrator’s fees and attorney fees upon the final settlement of a decedent’s estate. No other orders of the final settlement were appealed. The controversy was between two organizations of the Methodist Church (appellants in the district court) and the administrator de bonis non cum testa-mento annexo, hereafter referred to as administrator. The organizations were not found to be the legatees and devisees of the decedent upon the final settlement, and,…