Roberts Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearns,

This is a claim against the estate of a decedent on a quantum meruit for the value of services rendered upon the breach of an alleged parol contract of decedent to will claimant his entire estate. The auditing judge disallowed the claim. The court in banc sustained exceptions to the adjudication and allowed the claim, from which the auditing judge dissented.

Claims against a decedent’s estate for wages for personal services, where it is alleged that the same are to be paid for by testamentary provision, must be examined ■with great care. The applicable…