Schaefer v. Heaphy

After suffering from the progressively debilitating effects of emphysema for several years, Maud Schaefer finally died on February 19,1978. She left no Will; and, on April 5,1978, her son William Schaefer was appointed by the Orphans’ Court of Anne Arundel County as personal representative of Maud’s Estate.

On October 2,1978, Mrs. Schaefer’s sister, Margaret (May) Heaphy, filed a claim in the Estate for $24,050. The claim was in two parts. The first was for $9,950, representing “Services rendered as Housekeeper and Companion” at $50.00 a week for the 199-week period from June, 1972, to March,…