In re the Estate of Witt

Citations

• 74 Wash. 172
• 132 P. 1012
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 2015

Syllabus

<p>Executors and Administrators — Final Settlement — Items and Credits — Evidence—Sufficiency. A charge of $9,500 against an executor for wheat shown by an annual report to have been deposited in a warehouse, is properly reduced to $6,500 on final settlement, where it appears that the annual report by mistake included $3,000 worth of wheat not grown by or belonging to the estate.</p> <p>Same. On final settlement of an estate, an executor, charged with the cost of an automobile, is entitled to be credited with its selling price which he had turned into the estate.</p> <p>Same. On final settlement, an executor is entitled to credit for an overdraft at a bank where he kept funds of the estate, where the sum was expended on behalf of the estate.</p> <p>Same — Attorney’.s Charges. An attorney’s fee of $2,250, allowed for services in the settlement of an estate appraised at $37,761, is not unreasonable, when the estate was kept open a long time in an effort to pay off an indebtedness of $17,000 without disposing of the real estate.</p>