Estate of Price

This is an appeal from an order settling the account of the guardian of the estate of an incompetent person. The account as rendered shows that the guardian was allowed sums as compensation for her services and as compensation for her attorneys. No claim of error is made as to those items. However, she was allowed certain sums to reimburse her for moneys expended in traveling and for her board and room. ■ It is claimed that the last-mentioned items were improperly allowed. The expenditures so objected to were incurred in the following manner: For some years Alfred H. Price had been engaged as a railway telegrapher by the Southern Pacific Company. As such he had been located at Lodi. He had been married, but had not been living with his wife for many years. By this marriage he had one son whom he had not seen for a long time and whose whereabouts he did not know, but who survived him. He had a sister, Estella Brown, who resided at Winchester in the state of Indiana. In 1929 Mrs. Brown heard that her brother was ill. Soon thereafter she came to California to see her brother, who at that time was a patient in the Southern Pacific Hospital. On that trip, which we will call the first…