Coulston's Estate
Citations
- 161 Pa. 151
- 28 A. 1020
- 1894 Pa. LEXIS 655
Syllabus
<p>Decedents' estates — Glaim for domestic services — Presumption of payment — Rebuttal—Evidence.</p> <p>A claim against a decedent’s estate for domestic services for three and one half years at the rate of six dollars per week will not be sustained where the only witness for claimant is her daughter, who testifies that claimant only received one hundred dollars from decedent for her work, and that she had no other means of support. The presumption of payment periodically, from the custom in domestic service, is not overcome in such ease.</p> <p>A finding of fact by an auditing judge confirmed by the orphans’ court in banc will not be disturbed by the Supreme Court except upon very clear proof of mistake.</p>
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- holding the referee’s denial of additional testimony was not in error because “[n]ot only would the testimony of the missing witnesses and documents be duplicative of evidence already of record, but the allegations which [the claimant] states they would corroborate are not even in dispute”
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Judges: Fell, Green, McCollum, Mitchell, Williams
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