In re The Estate of McQuarrie

In the Superior Court of the State of California,

In and for the County of Alameda.

Memorandum Decision No. 20206. Dept. No 4.

In the matter of the estate of Iva McQuarrie, deceased.

The Court:

This matter comes up on settlement of final account and petition for distribution.

Iva McQuarrie died leaving certain real and personal property. On March 16, 1916, this Court, Judge Wm. S. Wells, presiding, set aside a homestead to M. D. McQuarrie, the surviving; husband, for a limited period, to-wit, five years. Objection has been made by parties interested to certain items included by M. D. McQuarrie, the administrator, as disbursements in. the account, as follows:

1. Taxes which accrued during the time he occupied the premises as a homestead;

*109 2. Expense of papering, painting, tinting, etc., rooms in house during the time of occupancy under the homestead.

3. Further objection is made by another party, the present wife of M. D. McQuarrie, to the allowance and settlement of the account without consideration of her claim for reinbursement from the estate for certain moneys she claims to have advanced from her separate property for the payment of taxes, interest on note…