Estate of Bell

This is an appeal by certain creditors of the estate of Thomas Bell, deceased, from the order of court settling the final account of the special administratrix of the estate. The attack upon the account goes to the allowance to the special administratrix of payments amounting to over twenty thousand dollars, made to herself as widow of the deceased upon account of family allowance.

Upon January 12, 1893, and before the return of the inventory in the matter of the estate of the deceased, the court made its order directing that the sum of two thousand dollars per month should be paid to Teresa Bell, the widow, from the date of the decedent’s death “until further order of the court.” The inventory was returned upon June 17, 1893. On October 14, 1895, the court made its second order “modifying” the order of 1893, and directing the executors to pay the widow on and after that date “as family allowance the sum of fifteen hundred dollars per month, instead of the monthly allowance of two thousand' dollars theretofore ordered to be paid.” Later the court made its third order, providing that on and after the sixteenth day of May, 1898, the sum of one hundred dollars a month should be paid…