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H. Clifford More, as administrator of the estate of Lawrence W. More, deceased, duly presented to John F. More, as administrator of the estate of Alexander P. More, deceased, a claim for allowance, amounting to the sum of $13,670.14. The claim was at first allowed in part by the administrator and the probate judge, but thereafter the allowance was revoked and recalled by both the admin *79 istrator and the judge, and the claim entirely rejected. Thereupon this action was brought to establish the claim, as provided in section 1498 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The defendant administrator answered the complaint, and within proper time Eliza M. Miller and C. A. Baldwin, by leave of the court, filed a complaint in intervention, alleging that Alexander P. More died intestate on October 21, 1893, leaving an estate, consisting principally of land, of the value of more than $500,000; that the interveners were sisters of the decedent and his heirs at law, and upon his death became, and ever since had been, seised in fee and possessed of the said landed estate; and denying that any sum of money whatever was due or owing from the said estate to the plaintiff. Subsequently, on motion of the…