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ABBOTT, ADMRX. v. DEPT. OF PUBLIC WELFARE

No. 30,144.

243 Ind. 596 (1963)

189 N.E.2d 417

ABBOTT, ADMINISTRATRIX ETC. v. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE ET AL.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Filed April 8, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hubert E. Wickens and Wickens & Wickens, of counsel, of Greensburg, for appellants.

Edwin K. Steers, Attorney General, Gordon R. Medlicott, Deputy Attorney General, and Ronald Beard, of Greensburg, for appellees.

JACKSON, C.J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Decatur Circuit Court determining the priority of claims in a decedent's estate; it also involved expenses of decedent's funeral and Welfare Department claims.

The issues, which were tried to the court without the intervention of a jury, were formed by the administratrix's petition for allowance of claims and instructions, and the answer and objection of the State Department of Public Welfare. In the interest...

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