In re the Estate of Cerello

Feely, S.

This decedent, a veteran of the World war, was declared incompetent in 1923. Upon his death in 1933 the committee of his property turned over to the administrator two sums of money, one of $10,612.89, made up of an accumulation of disability benefits received in the veteran’s lifetime by his committee from the Federal government under the Veterans’ Compensation Act, and the second sum of $1,561, the proceeds of a United States adjusted service certificate paid to his “ estate.” The distributees are his father, brothers and sisters, all adults, residents of Italy.

A claim was presented…