In re Estate of Fargo

Objections by defendant to certain expenditures made by deceased executor, Calvin F. Fargo, in the administration of the estate of Jerome B. Fargo (1) to “Mrs. Fish on account of family allowance,” and (2) for assessments on shares of stock of the Home Gold Mining Company.

The first item was paid under an order obtained upon a petition preferred by one Jennie F. Fish, which recited that she was a daughter of Jerome B. Fargo, deceased, and was then about forty-one years of age, and that during all of her life and up to and at the time of his death she lived and resided with him, and was entirely supported, maintained and cared for by him; that she was the mother of four minor children, issue of her marriage with Frank Fish, from whom she had been divorced for many years; that the names of the children were Jerome F., Henry K., George K., and Dudley F. Fish, aged respectively nineteen, eighteen, fifteen, and twelve years; that she and her said children, at the time of the death of said Jerome B. Fargo, and from their birth and during all their life, had lived and resided with him as and constituted and were his family, and were entirely supported, eared for, and maintained by him…