Taggart's Estate

Citations

• 167 Pa. 467
• 31 A. 733
• 1895 Pa. LEXIS 929

Syllabus

<p>Statute of limitations — Decedent's estate — Claim for services.</p> <p>A claim against a decedent’s estate is barred by the statute of limitations where it appears that the services were rendered more than five years prior to the decedent’s death, and more than six years prior to the filing of the executoi-’s account.</p> <p>Aside from the bar of the statute of limitations, the claim will not be allowed where it appears that the decedent had assumed the position of parent to claimant when the latter was a mere child, had sent him to school, and, finally, had given him a position as bartender; and where it appears that claimant had made no demand upon decedent in his lifetime for wages; and where the witnesses, produced by claimant to prove declarations made by decedent that he owed money to claimant, differed widely as to the amount.</p>