Estate of Carroll

This is an appeal from an order of the superior court of Humboldt County directing the executor of the last will and testament of Alice M. Carroll to pay to Bertha Steinhofer and Herman Steinhofer, respondents herein, the sum of $2,024.43, less the sum of $69.43, from the moneys of said estate. The facts are as follows: Alice M. Carroll, sometimes called Alice M. Perry, died testate in the county of Humboldt on or about August 20, 1917. P. W. Georgeson, the appellant herein, was duly appointed the executor of her last will and testament, and at all times since then has been and is now the duly qualified and acting executor. During the course of the administration of said estate Bertha and Herman Steinhofer, the respondents herein, presented a claim to said executor for certain services and expenditures claimed to have been made by them for and on behalf of said deceased. Said claim was rejected and disallowed by said executor. Thereafter the said claimants, the respondents in the present case, filed an action in the superior court of the county of Humboldt against the appellant herein as the executor of said estate. A trial of said cause was had with a jury and a verdict rendered…