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NATIONAL METROPOLITAN BANK v. JOSEPH GAWLER'S SONS

No. 9526.

168 F.2d 571 (1948)

NATIONAL METROPOLITAN BANK OF WASHINGTON et al. v. JOSEPH GAWLER'S SONS, Inc.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia.

Decided June 14, 1948.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Louis M. Denit, of Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Thomas S. Jackson, Coleman L. Diamond and A. Leckie Cox, all of Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Arthur F. Carroll, Jr., of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before STEPHENS, Chief Justice., and WILBUR K. MILLER and PROCTOR, Associate Justices.

PROCTOR, Associate Justice.

Frederick W. Buchholz died leaving a will whereby appellants (hereinafter called executors) were appointed executors with directions to pay decedent's just debts and the expenses of his last illness, "funeral and burial, in such amounts as they may deem proper." Upon Mr. Buchholz' passing his cousins, Louise Stoner and Gustav Blank, went to appellee's (hereinafter called Gawler's) undertaking establishment and arranged for the funeral at...

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