Bradshaw's Estate

Citations

• 243 Pa. 114
• 89 A. 831
• 1914 Pa. LEXIS 585

Syllabus

<p>Decedent’s estates — Debts of decedents — M.oney paid to 'decedent’s use — Recovery.</p> <p>1. Claims against a decedent’s estate which might have been enforced during the lifetime of the decedent are the subject of just suspicion and require strict proof.</p> <p>2. Where two years after decedent’s death a claim is made for money alleged to have been paid by claimant on the decedent’s behalf in her life time, the court made no error in disallowing such claim where it appeared that the items disallowed extended over a period of six years and any claim for them had matured before the death of the decedent, and that there was no' evidence of the existence of the relation of creditor and debtor between the claimant and the decedent nor that a demand had been made, or a statement rendered during her life time, although she was abundantly able to pay her debts and managed her business affairs with judgment.</p>