Schaffner v. Estate of Schaffner

The deceased, father of the appellee, left á will giving all his property, real and personal, to his wife for her life; then, at her death, to be divided equally among his five children. The will was duly probated and the widow, Elizabeth Schaffner, was appointed executrix thereof.

Thereafter the appellee, a son of the deceased and of the executrix, filed a bill against the estate, claiming that, at the request of his father, he quit employment as a farm hand, where he had steady employment at thirty dollars per month, and came home and worked for his father for nine years; that the father…