Reys

The administrators of the above estate have appealed from the order settling their final account and directing a disposition of the estate in their hands. The estate is insolvent, and the account was contested by the surviving widow and one of the creditors of the deceased. The court disallowed some of the items of expenditures set up in the account and held that the administrators should be charged with compound interest upon certain moneys in their hands from the time of their receipt.

1. A former account of their receipts and expenditures prior to June 24, 1894, filed by them December 5, 1894, in which they had charged themselves with the proceeds of certain sheep sold by them in 1893, had been settled by the court at the sum of five thousand one hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy-six cents. Certain items of expenditure which were omitted from that account were presented and allowed in the present account, and the court finds that they had in their possession on August 1, 1893, the sum of five thousand and seven dollars and nine cents, upon which they should be charged with compound interest from that date at the rate of seven per cent. It is contended by the…