DocketNumber: No. 28135
Citation Numbers: 122 Neb. 247
Judges: Day, Frost, Good, Messmore, Rose
Filed Date: 1/8/1932
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 9/9/2022
This is an appeal from a judgment approving the final supplemental report of an executor and the order discharging him and exonerating his bond. This case has heretofore been before this court (In re Estate of Freling, 119 Neb. 605) to which reference is made herein. The former appeal was from the approval of the final report of the executor by the county court. The report was that the estate was without funds to pay claims. It appears that the only asset of the estate now involved is an interest in the estate of decedent’s deceased husband, no part of which, reported the executor, came into his possession. The district court found that there was property of the estate of the husband of the reasonable value of $1,012.28. The trial court found that no prudent attempt had been made by this executor to collect this asset from the other estate, and that the executor was chargeable with the value thereof, $1,012.28, less any lawful deductions on account of claims and expenses of administration in that estate. This order is not ambiguous and its import is apparent. The court found that the executor had been negligent in securing collection of assets, found the value of such assets and charged him therewith as executor. This executor could only be chargeable with the amount coming from the other estate, so the court added the provision that the charge should be the value of the property, less proper charges against it in that estate. In fine, the money would come to this estate, less all proper charges against it in the other estate. This was the only judgment which could be entered because the administration of the husband’s estate was still pending at the time. This judgment was affirmed by this court and the mandate issued. Pursuant to the terms
Affirmed.