Peiffer's Estate

Citations

• 261 Pa. 209
• 104 A. 576
• 1918 Pa. LEXIS 716

Syllabus

<p>Decedents’ estates — Claim for services — Nursing—Evidence—Insufficiency.</p> <p>1. Services for nursing are presumed to be paid for periodically.</p> <p>2. A claim against a decedent’s estate presented by the daughter-in-law of decedent for nursing' was properly disallowed where it appeared that for a number of years claimant, her husband and decedent had lived together on the latter’s farm; that the crops and income therefrom were regularly divided between claimant’s husband, who was the tenant, and the decedent; that no express contract for such services was alleged and no demand was shown to have'been made by the claimant in the lifetime of the decedent, and the only testimony in support of the claim were a number of loose and vague declarations on the part of the decedent that the claimant should be paid for her services; and the claim was not presented until after claimant’s husband, who was executor of the estate, had been surcharged with a considerable sum for mismanagement of the estate.</p>