Estate of Bacigalupi

This is an appeal from a decree of distribution and settlement of final account. The appeal is taken on typewritten transcripts.

The appellants Charles Del Re and Teresa Del Re took a life estate in certain real property in the city of Tulare under the .will of Angiola Bacigalupi, deceased. By the terms of this will their interest in the property was to ter mínate upon the death of either one of the devisees and the entire estate was then to go to their six children named in the will. The will contained numerous bequests to relatives of the deceased and left the residue to a nephew and to a friend in equal shares. The total value of the ■ estate for purposes of distribution was found to be over $76,000, of which amount over $31,000 made up the residue devised to these two individuals. In settling the account and decreeing distribution the trial court determined that all legacies should bear a proportionate amount of the costs of administration and' for that purpose allotted the sum of $1,659.88 to these appellants, making that sum a charge upon the life estate devised to them.

On this appeal the single question involved is whether the expenses of administration should thus be…