In re Fisher's Estate

A creditor of the estate, whose claim had been allowed and approved by the court, filed several exceptions to the first annual account of the administrator. Several of these exceptions were confessed by the administrator, and after a hearing the court made the following record (omitting formal preliminary matter): “Now, after having considered said account and report, the objections to the same, and the evidence, the court finds that the amount of money received by said administrator during the time covered by said account and report to be the sum of $2,623.50, and the amount properly paid out and expended by him as such administrator, and for which he should receive credit against said estate, to be $2,207.59, leaving a balance in his hands in favor of said estate of $415.91, and with all property of said estate that has come into his hands and remaining undisposed of. It is therefore ordered that said account, after making the corrections and reductions proper to be made, shows a balance in his hands, of cash, $415.91, and the same is hereby settled, allowed, and approved.” From this order the administrator appeals.

The amount received by the administrator, as shown by his…