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uld have expressed'itten after* every-day . So when and other •Ott family at the tie to feli-d, it was terest. For ?ached hisrsirk, where iry on No-Walcott hasr the past and has irch, busi-ial affairs For many il interest A. R. andommander.iree living large and The other George D. d street, of CostaIn allowing $1500 as fees for special or “extraordinary” services in connection with the $197,-856 estate of the late Samuel S.Houston, who died two years ago,Superior Judge Harry C. West-over today filed an opinion on the vexing legal point whether an ex-iecutor or attorney for an estate should be paid by the estate for preventing money from coming into such estate.teerst the out-the young mmediate-York Vol-urageously n of the o business umber ofa, coming s retire-less inter-g example ing oldcheerful, 5 gained y passing » friends, ht his at-ry mark, est withcards to om a dis-1sure in a ibed with Years, ice cream nds. OneJudge Westover held that payment of such fees wras legal, hisruling being based upon a supreme court decision delivered in a case said to be “on all fours” with the Houston estate case.Objection FiledThe local dispute arose when the widow, Mrs. Mazie Smith Houston, and her co-executor, W. E. Tate, nephew of the deceased, filed their final accounting of the estate with the court, and the other heirs, a group of more than a dozen brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews, objected to the transfer of joint-tenancy property out of the estate to be the separate property of the widow. This property, once the separate property of Houston, had been conveyed before his death into joint tenancy with his wife.Mrs. Houston personally employed Attorneys R. Y. Williams and Charles D. Swanner of Santa Ana, to represent her interests, and Attorney Guss Hagen-stein of Fullerton, attorney for the estate, joined with them in defending the final accounting of the estate against the objections of the heirs. Attorney Albert Launer of Fullerton, represented the heirs.Fees SoughtHaspcancSalGrlt;anColmapulBoSoproiSanjsom-SOUfof aThea PI*thethefactwoi
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Santa Ana Register
Santa Ana, California, US
Fri, Nov 03, 1939
Page 16
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