Case Name: In the Matter of the Estate of John Frykholm, Deceased
Court: Washington Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Washington
Decision Date: 1926-04-12
Citations: 138 Wash. 551
Docket Number: No. 19328
Parties: In the Matter of the Estate of John Frykholm, Deceased.
Judges: 
Reporter: Washington Reports
Volume: 138
Pages: 551–552

Head Matter:
[No. 19328.
Department Two.
April 12, 1926.]
In the Matter of the Estate of John Frykholm, Deceased.
Carl J. Smith and Van Dyke & Thomas, for appellants.
Wright, Fronde, Allen $ Hilen, for respondents.
Reported in 244 Pac. 967.

Opinion:
Main, J.
This is an appeal from a final order of distribution in probate.
John Frykholm died intestate December 9, 1911. Mary Frykholm, his widow, the appellant here, was on December 9, 1911, appointed administratrix of the estate of the deceased. On or about December 4,1920, the appellant filed a petition in the proceeding asking for a family allowance. This petition was not disposed of until October 20, 1924, when the final decree of settlement and distribution was entered. In that decree the court declined to set aside anything' to the appellant as a family allowance. It is from this order that the appeal is prosecuted.
On the 29th day of October, 1925, and prior to the hearing of the cause on the merits in this court, the statement of facts was on motion stricken. There is a presumption in favor of the correctness of the decree of the trial court and, if there are any circumstances under which the court would be justified in declining to make a family allowance, the judgment must of necessity be affirmed. In State ex rel. Speckart v. Superior Court, 48 Wash. 141, 92 Pac. 942, it was held, under the facts of that case, that there could be no allowance.. Since we cannot consider the statement of facts which has been stricken, and since there is a presumption in favor of the order of the trial court, it follows that the judgment must be affirmed.
Tolman, O. J., Mitchell, Mackintosh, and Parker, JJ., concur.