Estate of Staggers

Citations

• 8 Pa. Super. 260
• 1898 Pa. Super. LEXIS 54

Syllabus

<p>Decedent's estate — Preferred claim for services in last illness.</p> <p>Whether or not a sickness, for which a preferred claim is advanced by a physician, was progressive from the first service rendered to the time of death is a question of fact to be determined from all the circumstances.</p> <p>A claim for services and medicine furnished will be sustained as preferred, where the auditor finds the illness to have been fatal from the first and that attendance given during a year and a half of said last illness was justifiable under the circumstances.</p>