Estate of Sletto v. Aarness

The state has a claim. The dispute is over the amount and the preference to be accorded in the matter of payment as against the homestead and dower rights of the widow.

The amount of the claim is to be arrived at by following sec. 604q, Stats. 1898, Sanborn & Sanborn’s Anno. Supp. 1906, until its repeal in 1919, and from then on under the rule recognized in Guardianship of Sprain, 219 Wis. 591, 263 N. W. 648, where the statutes are reviewed. This results in an allowance of $3 per week for the charges from December 6, 1907, to March 12, 1908, and the “value” thereafter.

The administrator objects…