Fogg's Estate

Citations

• 249 Pa. 63
• 94 A. 453
• 1915 Pa. LEXIS 675

Syllabus

<p>Evidence — Statements to attorney — Confidential communications.</p> <p>1. Where an attorney has served simply as an intermediary between the widow and daughter of an intestate decedent, in the settlement of a dispute regarding decedent’s real estate, he may testify as to the terms of the agreement made between the parties in proceedings by the daughter subsequent to the mother’s death to recover a part of the rental value of such real estate from her deceased mother’s estate. Such evidence is not open to the objection that it would be a disclosure of confidential communications.</p> <p>2. Where in such case it appeared that the widow had occupied the property after her husband’s death under a family arrangement between herself and her daughter which gave the widow the occupancy of the' property rent free during her life, the Orphans’ Court made no error in disallowing the claim.</p>