In re the Accounting of Tighe

Appeal by the administrator of the goods, chattels and credits of a deceased and by one of her *742distributees from a decree of the Montgomery County Surrogate’s Court entered July 26, 1963. Respondent presented a claim to the administrator amounting to $2,628 for personal services allegedly rendered to decedent from September 1, 1960 to September 5, 1962 upon her express promise to pay therefor the stipulated sum of $25 per week. He rejected the claim which thereafter came on for trial before the Surrogate who allowed it to the extent of $1,400 and made an award of counsel fees to claimant’s…