In re Estate of Snyder

The opinion of the court was delivered by This is an appeal from the judgment, order, and decision of the
district court allowing the petition of the appellee, executor,
for executor and attorney fees of $6,000 and overruling the
appellants' motion for new trial. Three former appeals have been before this court involving
principally either the estate of Charles E. Snyder or the estate
of Isabelle H. Snyder, but irrespective of which estate was the
subject of the appeal some mention was made of the other estate
in determining the appeals. (In re Estate of Snyder,
179 Kan. 252, 294 P.2d 197; In re Estate of Snyder, 181 Kan. 222,
310 P.2d 944, and In re Estate of Snyder, 187 Kan. 373,
357 P.2d 778.) On September 4, 1948, Isabelle H. Benedict, a childless widow
seventy-six years of age, married Charles E. Snyder, a widower
sixty-nine years of age, who had three adult children: Elmore,
James N., and Charles E. Snyder, Jr.