McCahan's Estate

Citations

• 221 Pa. 188

Syllabus

<p>Decedents’ estates — Contract—Claim for services — Allowance for services — Findings of fact — Attorney at law — Evidence—Contest.</p> <p>A finding of fact by an auditing judge of the orphans’ court based upon sufficient evidence and confirmed by the court in banc to the effect that' a claimant for services against a decedent’s estate had a contract •of employment with the decedent, will not be reversed in the absence of manifest error.</p> <p>An attorney at law may testify as to declarations made by decedent in reference to a contract of employment which decedent had made with a niece, and that decedent had instructed him to insert in a will, which he had subsequently drawn, certain terms of the contract of employment.</p> <p>Where a will directs that any of the legatees contesting or attempting to contest the will shall lose their legacies, a mere caveat will not be construed as a contest of the will.</p>