McHugh's Estate

Citations

• 152 Pa. 442
• 31 W.N.C. 416
• 25 A. 875
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 997

Syllabus

<p>[Marked to be reported.]</p> <p>Decedents’ estates — Claim for services.</p> <p>A minor after his father’s death lived at the house of his aunt, under an arrangement by which the minor’s guardian paid seven dollars per week for his board. During the last month of the boy’s illness the guardian agreed to pay the aunt’s daughter fifteen dollars per week, in addition to the board, for nursing him. Ko further demand was made during the boy’s lifetime, but at the audit of the account of his administrator the aunt made a further claim of three dollars per week for nursing during the whole period of his stay, and of fifty dollars for the use of her house during the funeral. Held, that the claim should not be allowed.</p>