Schammel

The parties to this action were husband and wife, and were divorced by a decree entered therein on December 9,1887. The decree awarded to the plaintiff the custody of Etta Schammel, the minor child of the parties, and the defendant was “ ordered and decreed to contribute to the support and education of said Etta, the sum of fifteen dollars per month during the *260 period of her minority,” and “to pay said sum of money to the plaintiff, or to her order, or to the legal guardian of said minor, on the first day of every month for the time aforesaid.”

On May 5, 1890, on motion of the plaintiff, the allowance for the support of the minor was increased by order of the court to twenty-five dollars per month.

On March 27,1891, the plaintiff died, owning two lots of land, with houses thereon, in the city and county of San Francisco, one of which she gave to her said minor daughter, and the other to Ernestine Gallagher, a married daughter. The house and lot given to the minor daughter was worth about three thousand five hundred dollars, and when rented yielded about twenty-five dollars per month.

On June 12, 1891, an order was duly made and entered in the matter of the estate of Maria…