¶1delivered the opinion of the court.
¶2The record presents the question, whether an administrator, on a petition by a minor for distribution, has a right to set off a claim for necessaries furnished to the minor during his minority, and while he was without a guardian ?
¶3In the case of McGee & wife v. Ford, 5 S. & M. 769, the court held, that an indebtment by the distributee for goods purchased at a sale of the effects belonging to the estate, should be credited on the distributive share of such party. But that case is not like the present, and is, therefore, no precedent for the right claimed.
¶4The cases of Green v. Green et al., 3 S. & M. 256, and of Jones v. Coon, 5 Ib. 751, cited by appellee, directly decide, that the probate court cannot allow'- such claims as set-off against the distribution. The latter case, Jones v. Coon, was in almost every particular like the case before us, being a petition by dis-tributees for an account and distribution. The administrator claimed an allowance for board and maintenance furnished them while minors, and on that point the court say: “ The item for board and maintenance was not within the jurisdiction of the court as between these parties. If the relation of guardian and ward had subsisted between them, it might have fallen under its cognizance.”
¶5It may seem a hard case upon" these administrators; but, governed by the rules of law and the precedents of the court, it is one from which this court cannot relieve him on this record. Whether he can obtain relief in any other manner,.w© do not decide.
¶6Decree affirmed.