Treadway

Plaintiff brings the action as administrator of the estate of William Zawadill, deceased, to recover from defendants the sum of $500, alleged to have been on deposit with the treasurer of the Veterans’ Home of California to the credit of, and subject to the order and disposition of, said deceased at the time of his death, to wit, on the seventh day of January, 1908. The answer admitted the due appointment of plaintiff as administrator of the estate of said deceased, but denied that deceased, at his death, had any money in the hands of said defendant, treasurer as aforesaid, subject to the orders or disposition of the deceased, except that said defendant had in his possession and control the sum of $517.05, “which said sum consisted of a balance, at the time of the death of said William Zawadill, held by the treasurer of said home for the purposes and for the reasons hereinafter set forth.” It is further averred that defendant, the Veterans’ Home of California, is a state institution, created by and existing under the act of the legislature of the state of California, approved March 11, 1897, entitled “An act to accept from the Veterans’ Home Association the conveyance of, and to…