ELKHART CO. DEPT. OF PUB. WELF. v. KEHR, ADMR.

No. 18,387.

124 Ind. App. 325 (1953)

112 N.E.2d 451

ELKHART COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE v. KEHR, ADMINISTRATOR OF ESTATE OF KEHR, DECEASED.

Court of Appeals of Indiana.

Rehearing denied June 16, 1953.

Transfer denied February 24, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry E. Vernon, of Goshen, for appellant.

Philip C. Barker, of Goshen, for appellee.


KENDALL, J.

The sole question presented by this appeal is whether or not the widow's statutory allowance, as provided by § 6-711, Burns' 1951 (Supp.), Acts of 1881 as amended by Acts of 1949, ch. 52, p. 155, § 1, constitutes a prior and preferred claim to that of a welfare lien on real estate created by §§ 52-1213 and 52-1214, Burns' 1951 Replacement.

Appellee's decedent, John F. Kehr, died in Elkhart County, Indiana, March 6, 1951, leaving...

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