In re Coursen's Estate

Jeanie A. Coursen died testate in 1877, naming William P. Stout and G. A. Coursen as executors, and her will was shortly after duly probated, and letters issued to the executors. An inventory was filed and notice to creditors published. No claims have been presented *758 against the estate. The property consisted of $180 in money and certain real property on Fulton street, in San Francisco, which was occupied hy the family of deceased. Respondent Coursen was the second husband of deceased, and appellant, Stout, was her son by her first husband. She left seven children of the second marriage, all of whom had reached majority before the final accounts and the petition for distribution were filed. It appeared by executor Coursen’s final account that he received all the money, and he testified that he disbursed it in expenses of administration; but he filed no vouchers. By the will of deceased, appellant was left all the interest she had in the estate of her deceased first husband, Jacob W. Stout, father of appellant. To her children by the second marriage, of whom there were seven, the testatrix devised her real estate, being her separate property, share and share alike. There was a…