Estate of Doud

This is an appeal from an order settling and approving the final account of an administratrix. Olive B. Doud was appointed administratrix of the estate in question on December 23, 1921. Her final account was not filed until September 17, 1928. The appellant, a creditor of the deceased, filed exceptions to the several items in the account, and charged her with negligence, carelessness and bad faith, in delaying her final settlement. After a hearing, the court approved the account as filed, and this appeal is from that order.

The only record before us consists of the order appealed from, and a bill of exceptions setting forth certain evidence introduced at the hearing on the final account and containing a copy of a portion of the original inventory and appraisement and portions of two previous accounts filed by the administratrix, together with a few vague references to other proceedings in the estate not set forth or explained.

The bill of exceptions sets forth six specifications of error, which we will take up in order.

First, that the court erred in allowing the administratrix more than one annual premium of $37.50 on her bond as administratrix. This is based on the contention…