Carothers's Estate

Citations

• 41 Pa. Super. 126
• 1909 Pa. Super. LEXIS 22

Syllabus

<p>Decedents’ estates — Claim for services — Evidence.</p> <p>A claim for $600 allowed by the court below for services at the rate of $100 per year will be reduced by the appellate court to $60.00, where there is some evidence that the decedent agreed to pay for services, but not a salary, and the evidence shows that the only services rendered by the claimant was that once in each of the six years he went to the county seat to pay the decedent’s taxes; that on two occasions he made the same journey to deliver to her counsel a promissory note which she held; that on three occasions he met at the decedent’s house another neighbor and calculated the interest on a note which the decedent held against the latter, and drew a new note for the amount of the obligation; and that on another occasion he collected the sum of $50.00 on account of another note held by the decedent.</p>