Brack v. Tingley

This appeal is from a judgment for the defendant for costs in the Superior Court of Baltimore in an appeal by a creditor of a decedent who had excepted unsuccessfully in the Orphans’ Court to an administration account that allowed $500.00 for funeral expenses in an estate which had only $500.00 in assets.

Thomas J. Tingley, Jr., a member of the Baltimore Bar, died in June 1955. All of his assets were in the joint names of himself and his wife, Helen C. Tingley. Soon after his death she paid the funeral bill of over $900.00 with her individual funds. Mr. Tingley’s will, naming his wife as…