IN RE SHOPTAW'S ESTATE

No. 34938.

54 Wn.2d 602 (1959)

343 P.2d 740

In the Matter of the Estate of FLORENCE NETTLETON SHOPTAW, Deceased. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Appellant, v. RAYMOND PAUL BROWN, as Executor, Respondent.

The Supreme Court of Washington, Department Two.

September 3, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles P. Moriarty, Charles K. Rice, Lee A. Jackson, A.F. Prescott, and Frank W. Rogers, Jr., for appellant.


HILL, J.

This is an appeal, on an agreed statement of facts, from an order entered in probate rejecting an executor's final report, and fixing the order of the payment of certain claims against an insolvent estate. The issue presented is the relative priority, in such an estate, of a physician's claim for services rendered during the deceased's last illness, and the claim of the United States for unpaid income taxes.

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